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...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 of their arrival. But having been disappointed many times over the past month - by failed cease-fires, by the failure of the ECOWAS forced promised one month ago to arrive, and by the U.S. equivocating over its role in any peacekeeping operation - the Liberians know the limits...
...same time facing domestic and international pressure to act to stop another African tragedy. That's why the White House is sending forces to the region and offering logistical support, but insisting that its role will be simply to support Nigerians. The problem is that thus far, Nigeria has not shown up, and everybody knows the U.S. is an infinitely more capable and better endowed player...
...peacekeepers arrive - the two rebel groups already control 80 percent of Liberia, and if they can defeat Taylor's forces in the capital before ECOWAS arrives, the peacekeepers' role will simply involve overseeing and guaranteeing the transition to a new government. Some African analysts have even speculated that Nigeria's delay in deploying peacekeepers may be in part to allow the Darwinian logic of the battlefield to produce a clear winner...
...Qaeda for that attack. Although the government hailed the arrests as a major strike against the network, Interior Minister Prince Nayef warned there was still a threat of terrorism. It's Over Already SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE A bloodless army coup ended as President Fradique de Menezes returned from Nigeria after signing an accord granting amnesty to the troops who toppled him a week earlier. Under the deal, de Menezes will stay on as President, but has promised to replace the government. Coup leader Major Fernando Pereira, who said the takeover was meant to highlight the island nation's impoverished...
...East [June 23]. Peace will be secured only by a complete break with the past. The Old Guard must take a backseat and allow moderate Israeli and Palestinian elements to reach a compromise. The U.S. survived a bloody civil war, and Americans still live together as one nation. In Nigeria we have had our share of hate and are slowly learning that we have no other place to go. The Middle East surely cannot be the exception that proves the rule. Peter Agbaminoja Lagos...