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...refused to say when he would depart the country. Nearly everybody wants him out. President Bush has set Taylor's departure as a condition for any large-scale deployment of American peacekeepers, though seven arrived on Aug. 6 to coordinate logistics with the West Africans. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has offered Taylor asylum from a war-crimes indictment. Jacques Paul Klein, the top U.N. envoy in Liberia, has urged Taylor to accept the offer. "Go while the getting is good," Klein says. Even Taylor's militia and congressmen from his own party say he should leave, arguing that his presence...
...limits being set by Washington on what its troops may do has not been well-received by the West Africans. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo told the BBC, "If your house is on fire and somebody says: 'Here I am. I have my fire engine. Now when you put your fire out on your house, I will come in.' I wonder what sort of help that is, with all due respect." And the fact that the U.S. has a fire engine and a corps of firefighters whose capabilities dwarf those of everyone else in the neighborhood makes it difficult...
...being done. Because how do they deal with a problem where the continent of Africa says we don't like this. It's wrong. Stop it. There's nothing you can do. Nobody can do anything about it. There's no one who's saying, we support it. And Obasanjo said, "I'm not doing this alone to give Mr. Taylor sanctuary." It was a decision taken across the board, even with some major Western countries. It's wrong. Where's the proof from the type of thing that said "Taylor financed?" (A UN-backed court in Sierra Leone...
...understand this at all. I'm not sure Africa understands this. The African union doesn't understand this. Because these calls, these harsh calls, were not coming from the African continent. So leaving a bloody civil war, leaving a void is not the thing to do. President Obasanjo (of Nigeria) did not take this action (of offering Taylor asylum) alone. This was a decision taken across the continent, and I have received invitations from other countries to come there. But I'll keep those names quiet...
...near Baghdad. The Bush Administration would like to avoid the stigma of American occupation and share the security of the country after weeks of violence and looting. Neighborly Advice zimbabwe South African President Thabo Mbeki confirmed that he will travel to Harare this week, accompanied by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Malawian leader Bakili Muluzi, for talks with President Robert Mugabe on the country's economic and political crisis. But Mbeki's spokesman denied reports that the group would pressure Mugabe to step down. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai criticized the planned visit, saying the only solution to the current emergency...