Word: quainoo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paid an unexpected visit to the headquarters of the five-nation peacekeeping force that had been sent into Liberia by its West African neighbors. There is speculation that Doe was seeking safe passage out of the country or that he may have been there to scold Lieut. General Arnold Quainoo, the Ghanaian commander of the peacekeeping force, for not paying him a courtesy call at the presidential mansion...
...before he could meet with Quainoo, Doe and his bodyguards became engaged in a battle with the forces of Prince Johnson, who had declared a truce with Doe less than a month earlier. During the hour-long battle, Doe was wounded in both legs by machine-gun fire and captured by Johnson, who immediately declared himself President. Doe loyalists, for their part, remained at their posts under the command of Brigadier General David Nimley, head of the presidential guard...
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