Word: ecomog
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...problems without the help of uninterested superpowers, they hastily decided that ECOWAS should go into the peacekeeping business. To achieve a cease-fire in Liberia and supervise free elections, they created a West African force, the Economic Community Monitoring Group. Yet when the time came to pass out white ECOMOG helmets, only five countries sent troops: Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Gambia...
...think that ECOMOG can. While President Dawda Jawara of Gambia played host at a meeting in the capital of Banjul to choose an interim President for Liberia, men with guns were very much in control. Taylor forcibly moved nearly 2,000 Nigerians and Guineans, mostly civilians seeking refuge in their embassy compounds in Monrovia, south to the port city of Buchanan, out of the reach of rescue. With Taylor's rebels shooting at Nigerian soldiers and Burkina Faso sending in troops to support Taylor, escalation of the war has already begun...
...Want a short-term worst-case scenario?" asked a Western diplomat in the Ivory Coast. "Everyone divides into constituent parts: Doe, Taylor and ECOMOG. Want a long-term worst-case scenario? Doe goes back to his Krahn in Grand Gedeh County. Taylor goes back to where he started in Nimba. And it's Doe against Taylor." All over again...
...rebels captured, tortured and then killed Doe on Sept. 10, but about 1,000 of the slain President's followers still hold the executive mansion in Monrovia and are fighting on. A 6,000-man, five-nation West African peacekeeping force, strangely named the Economic Community Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), began to arrive in Liberia in August but has been unable to stop the shooting. In fact, it has become actively involved in the war, mounting, in conjunction with Prince Johnson's forces, air and ground attacks on Taylor and his rebels...
...since June has killed over 1,000 civilians. And last week help was supposed to arrive - not the 2,300 U.S. Marines on the three gunships expected off the Liberian coast last weekend (they as yet have no orders to come ashore), but an African peacekeeping force, known as ECOMOG, from the Economic Community of West African States. But last Wednesday, when an advance team of 10 military advisers finally set off for a fact-finding mission to the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the commercial flight it was booked on was cancelled. Then a military plane the men commandeered developed engine...