These are four conflicts in Africa that Gaddafi funded or launched

Support to Charles Taylor and for Foday Sankoh

In 2011, a lawyer for ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor told the International Criminal Court (ICC) that Gaddafi had to be prosecuted in connection to the crimes committed in the Liberian civil wars because Libya’s leader gave plenty of help to Taylor.

This was after a witness, Moses Blah, had testified that he was one of about 200 people Libya trained for Taylor’s rebel group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) in 1989. Outside of the tribunal, there were some assertions that Gaddafi gave more than training to NPFL rebels.

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In Sierra Leone too, Gaddafi was known to have given money and arms to Foday Sankoh and his Revolutionary Union Front (RUF) during that country’s civil war.