Guus Kouwenhoven, Dutch Businessman Whose Fortunes Rose and Fell With Charles Taylor’s Liberia, Dies at 84

Monrovia – Guus Kouwenhoven, the Dutch entrepreneur whose timber empire made him one of Liberia’s most powerful foreign businessmen — and whose alleged arms-trafficking ties to former President Charles Taylor made him one of its most notorious — died Sunday evening, September 6, surrounded by family, according to a statement released by his relatives. He […]