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A military court has sentenced four soldiers to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour after a trial lasting more than one year, Star radio reported. Five others were released.
The accused were arrested for sedition in connection with fighting which broke out in September 1998 in Monrovia between presidential security forces and fighters loyal to former warlord Roosevelt Johnson.
Johnson, Taylor's enemy during Liberia's seven-year civil war, found refuge in the US Embassy before being airlifted on a US military helicopter to Sierra Leone, from where he went to Nigeria.
AFRICA: Workshop on assessing Children's Summit goals ends
Demographers, statisticians, planning experts and programme coordinators from West and Central Africa on Friday ended a five-day workshop in Abidjan on evaluating progress made since the 1990 World Summit on Children (WSC).
The aims of the workshop, organised by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), included helping countries prepare surveys for gauging the attainment of objectives adopted at the summit.
The workshop, to be followed by others in various regions of the world, is part of a series of activities leading up to a special session of the UN General Assembly in the third quarter of 2001 at which UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will present a report on progress worldwide towards the attainment of WSC goals.
The Abidjan workshop was attended by delegates from Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoro Islands, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome e Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
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