Africabeat template: Africabeat  Thursday, April 06, 2006
Africabeat has moved!  Africabeat as moved to a new home:  It's
still in the process of a visual redesign. All of the old posts
are there, but sadly the comments are not. If you would like to
read old posts & old comments, I'm keeping this shop open, but
turning off comments. To add new comments and to read new
entries, visit:  Tuesday, March 28, 2006  Charles Taylor Flees
Charles Taylor fled his villa in Nigeria. So I guess all of the
discussion of the Special Court and Sierra Leone has just become
moot.  What did everyone expect would happen after the president
of Nigeria publically announced his intention to hand over
Taylor before bothering to actually arrest him?   Charles Taylor
and the Special Court for Sierra Leone  I was happy when I read
the news that Nigeria has finally pledged to give up Charles
Taylor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone. I'm not sure if
President Obasanjo just grew tired of Taylor or if the Americans
offered him a real