Liberia's Taylor given asylum in Nigeria

In archive footage from July 2003, Nigeria's then-President Olusegun Obasanjo flies to Liberia's capital, Monrovia, to offer his Liberian counterpart Charles Taylor asylum as a way to help end instability in the country.

Lurd rebels were besieging Monrovia and Mr Taylor was wanted for war crimes in Sierra Leone. He eventually went to Nigeria in August and was later tried by a UN-backed court and found guilty.

Archive from the Associated Press news agency and British Movietone