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...true in other West African nations, Senegal's primary international concern is Liberia's lack of progress toward peace and the threat of further expanding the present conflict into neighboring states. Recently, Liberian troops moved from Sierra Leone into the northwestern parts of Liberia, occupying territory formerly controlled by Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Front of Liberia forces. International troops from several West African nations were supposed to maintain the status quo and perpetuate a shaky cease-fire, but the distrust and hatred of Taylor, his equal lack of confidence in the neutrality of the international troops...
...able to realize benefits from free trade and improved health and food production. Unless human suffering is alleviated, the continent is threatened by a rejection of democracy and increasing conflicts, like those among the competing ethnic groups of Ethiopia, the nomadic Tuaregs and the skirmishing military powers in Liberia. These are the kinds of civil wars that are rarely addressed by the United Nations or even noticed in much of the industrialized world. With understanding and help, the agony in Africa can be alleviated...
...been left alone? In any case, Africa today is changeable and still shattering into new configurations. There is now a Burkina Faso, an Ivory Coast, a Kenya, a Nigeria, but the nation- state has been an imposition from the West, and a sometime thing. Once there was a Liberia (founded in the early 19th century by freed American slaves); now Liberia is splintered in feudal fashion. There are two Sudans, each at war with the other...
...Mali, Liberia and Congo have announced legal moves to recover assets they say were stolen under previous one-party regimes. In the case of Mali, the Swiss Foreign Ministry has decided to reroute part of its country's aid to Mali to pay for Swiss lawyers -- clever rerouting -- to investigate whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave...
TIME Cairo correspondent Bill Dowell faced comparable difficulties when he had to travel to Liberia to co-report our cover story. With Monrovia's main airport still under rebel control following the bloody civil war that ousted President Samuel Doe, Dowell flew in on a tiny Cessna that landed on a , makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin...