Taylor's shadow

There is a new government but no real peace and far too few peacekeepers

Renewed fighting in Liberia's north-east Nimba County rings alarm bells across the region. Fingers are pointing at ousted President Charles Ghankay Taylor, now exiled in south-eastern Nigeria, who in 1989 launched seven years of civil war by bringing a guerrilla band into Nimba across the border from Côte d'Ivoire. Rebuilding a base there would allow Taylor to launch attacks into both Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire, whose sponsorship of new Liberian rebels critically weakened his regime.

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Charles Ghankay Taylor, Nigeria, Côte d, Ivoire, Guinea, Olusegun Obasanjo, Gyude Bryant, David Crane, United States, Christopher Kolade, Libya, Moammar el Gadaffi, Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, Ghana, Counting on the UN peacekeepers, Jacques Paul Klein, Aliyu Sheriff, Netherlands, Charles Bennie, Isaac Nyanebo, Sekou Conneh, George Dweh, Samuel Kanyon Doe, Jackson Doe, Cheaye Doe, Daniel Chea, Thomas Nimely, Daniel Opande, Kenya, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Laurent Gbagbo, gendarme

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