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...nine, Carrington witnessed firsthand the civil strife in her native Nigeria during the military regime of General Sani Abacha...
...resign from the company in 1995 because of conflicts of interest stemming from her marriage to Walter Carrington, a Harvard Law School alum who was then the American ambassador to Nigeria...
Other journalists selected include Ana Lourdes Cardenas, a television reporter in Mexico City; Sunday Dare, an editor from Nigeria; and Paula Fray, an editor from South Africa...
...Without the mercenaries organizing the government's defenses, the RUF wrought havoc in the countryside, and then a coup by former Strasser loyalists led by Colonel Johnny Paul Koroma overthrew Kabbah and invited the RUF into the capital for an orgy of bloodletting and looting. The West urged Nigeria to take charge, and in February 1998 the ECOMOG intervention force seized Freetown, restored Kabbah to power and arrested Foday Sankoh, who was later sentenced to death. But a year later, the RUF overwhelmed ECOMOG and recaptured the capital, freeing Sankoh and savaging the civilian population. Government control was only restored...
...largely of untrained soldiers from other countries in Africa who are unequipped and outmanned in the fight with the rebels. Faced with a force far too strong to fight, the untrained peacekeepers were kidnapped, their supplies stolen by the rebels, who will become even stronger as a result. Now Nigeria has decided to pull out their troops, and the British are evacuating their citizens from the country. These actions are sending a clear message to the rebels of Sierra Leone--the West does not care about Africa and will not intervene...