After decades of financing and training rebels and liberation movements, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is accused of using his influence to amass an army of mercenaries from across sub-Saharan Africa. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Chad, Mali and Zimbabwe: One only has to name a conflict, rebel group or despot in Africa to find someone the Libyan…
Editor`s note: Christopher Santora worked as a prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2002 to 2005 in cases against various faction leaders from the country’s 11-year war. He also served as prosecutor from 2007 to 2010 in The Hague, Netherlands, in the case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor, and was involved…
Supermodel Naomi Campbell testified at the war crimes trial today of former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor that she accepted a gift of uncut, dirty stones — possible “blood diamonds” — after attending a 1997 dinner with the dictator at Nelson Mandela’s home in South Africa. But Campbell stopped short of calling the stones diamonds, and…