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More promising was the unprecedented decision by Nigeria and four other West African nations to send a peacekeeping force of 2,700 troops into Liberia. The plan: to impose a cease-fire and establish a provisional government that would not include either beleaguered President Samuel Doe or his two rivals, Charles Taylor and Johnson...
Taylor's rebels had evacuated most foreigners--but not scores of Guineans and Nigerians--from Monrovia's battlefront in an 18-vehicle convoy on Wednesday. Guinea and Nigeria are participating in the West African peacekeeping force...
...leading Nigerian newspaper, the Guardian, reported yesterday morning that Taylor's rebels shot two Nigerian citizens to death inside their Monrovia embassy during the past week. The report was certain to step up pressure on Nigeria's military government to speed up intervention...
...city activist Lester P. Lee, Jr., who is heading his own campaign for an African sister city, said that his first choice is Akwa, Nigeria. Lee said that he favors establishing a city in the Akwa region because many Black Americans have historical roots in the area...
...surprised none of us: after all, the foreign correspondent is hardly a stranger to bloodshed and chaos. In 30 years with TIME, Wilde has reported on wars from Viet Nam, Africa and the Middle East. During the war in Biafra in the late 1960s, when the eastern part of Nigeria tried to secede, Wilde not only came under frequent ground fire but was strafed by Nigerian jet fighters as well...