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...take the lead in any such operation and that President Taylor must go into exile before U.S. troops will play any role. But Taylor insists he will not leave until peacekeepers arrive, and many Africans believe that only the U.S. can restore some semblance of order. The last time Nigerian peacekeepers did a tour of duty in Liberia, in the mid-'90s, they were notorious for their looting and pillaging...
...African nations, was first deployed in 1990 after the outbreak of civil war in Liberia. Since then, it has helped quell unrest in Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast. Washington points to it as an example of Africa helping itself, and over the past few years has trained Nigerian, Ghanaian and Senegalese battalions. But with around 1,300 troops in Ivory Coast, and West African soldiers in Congo as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force, ECOMOG is already stretched thin. "We just can't meet all these crises," says spokesman Sunny Ugoh. "We still need help to help...
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS. A little more than the standard English mystery movie, this film from director Stephen Frears (High Fidelity) enters around an illegal Nigerian night porter. With the help of a chambermaid and a prostitute he investigates a murder committed in the hotel at which he is employed. Dirty Pretty Things screens...
...past month Liberians have been burying new dead and bandaging new wounded as they wait for a promised peacekeeping force to arrive. Their hopes were raised Wednesday as a group of ten Nigerian officers toured the war-torn capital Monrovia to assess conditions for deployment of a battalion of troops. Elsewhere, the regional security organization ECOWAS announced that a contingent of 1,500 Nigerian troops would arrive in Liberia early next week to start the peacekeeping mission, and appealed to Liberia's president, indicted warlord Charles Taylor, to keep his word and take up asylum in Nigeria within three days...
...Nigeria's previous interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone have been somewhat messy: Hundreds of Nigerian troops were killed, making the deployments unpopular domestically. And in retaking the capital of Sierra Leone from rebel fighters, Nigerian forces displayed a brutality akin to that of some of the region's warlords, and UN officials later accused some Nigerian officers of corruption. More immediately, veterans of previous peacekeeping operations have warned that the scale of the Nigerian force envisaged for Liberia is insufficient to stabilize Monrovia...