Word: jawara
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to prevent another massacre, Gambian President Sir Dawda Jawara, the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, which had organized the peacekeeping force, asked troops to intercede in the evacuation of Doe loyalists who had barricaded themselves inside the presidential mansion. Two weeks ago, ECOWAS representatives met in Ghana to select an interim government for Liberia, to be led by Amos Sawyer, a political scientist who in 1984 drafted the country's present constitution. Both Nimley and Johnson have indicated their willingness to turn power over to Sawyer once he has been installed in Monrovia...