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...LIBERIA'S CHARLES TAYLOR (WHO LATER FLED THE COUNTRY WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS): "So we're undermining a Christian, Baptist President to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country...
...Conflict of Interest ALGERIA The governmental crisis deepened as the main political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), withdrew five ministers from the coalition cabinet. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika fired FLN leader Ali Benflis as PM in May, and sacked five other FLN ministers last month. The U.N. Moves In LIBERIA Fighting between rebels and government forces in Monrovia marred the formal takeover by the U.N. of peacekeeping duties. The 3,500 members of the interim West African force already in Liberia formed the nucleus of the new U.N. Mission to Liberia (UNMIL). The last of 200 U.S. soldiers left...
South Africa could end the Zimbabwean political charade quickly by easing Mugabe, 79, into exile with some of his ill-gotten wealth. Perhaps he could join Charles G. Taylor, the ex-dictator of Liberia, in Nigeria. But South Africa is reluctant to interfere, and President Bush and Secretary Powell’s pressure on South Africa and criticisms of Zimbabwe have produced promises, but no action. It is not clear when South Africa will decide, on behalf of the African Union, that Zimbabwe’s meltdown has harmed South Africa and embarrassed the democrats of Africa sufficiently to produce...
...think we needed a neutralist ... The warring parties are too inflamed." GYUDE BRYANT, who is known better for his business dealings than for politics, named last week to lead an interim government in Liberia...
...distrust. Ironically, Gbagbo supporters who have long suspected France of colluding with rebels applauded the Paris arrests, while government members drawn from insurgents' ranks denounced the French as Gbagbo "puppets" who framed Coulibaly. The increased tension comes just two weeks after the resignation of President Charles Taylor in neighboring Liberia quelled civil war there - and raised hopes that calm and stability might return to the entire violence-stricken region. Along with Coulibaly's arrest and the wave of Abidjan detentions, passions were inflamed when Ivorian rebels killed two soldiers in France's 4,000-strong peacekeeping force imposing a cease...