Monie Captan

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…Monie Ralph Captan (born May 28, 1962) was the foreign minister of Liberia from 1996 until 2003. During most of that time he served under President Charles Taylor.

Mr.Captan's mother is a native of Libera and his father was a Lebanese. Before serving as foreign minister, he was a local businessman, owner of an independent Liberian newspaper and a professor at the University of Liberia. During the Liberian Civil war, his newspaper expressed views which sometimes came across as being sympathetic to Charles Taylor and his NPFL. When Mr. Taylor won the elections, he was subsequently named foreign minister. He is one of several Liberian elites who were not members of Taylor's NPFL(National Patriot Front of Liberia) to be appointed to high level positions. During the Liberian Civil war he resided in Monrovia which was never controlled by the NPFL. By Nana Nehme (student), Baker College, Auburn Hills, Michaign.