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...point of view of an orphan in Liberia, suburban America looks like paradise. But for Emmanuel, it is a paradise beyond reach; at his age he is unlikely to be adopted. For 13 others living in the same orphanage, however, the pictures could turn into reality - and salvation. Monrovia is essentially under siege. Food, clean water and medicine become scarcer by the day. These 13 children don't suffer any less than the rest of the population. The difference is that they could have a way out. They have been adopted by American parents. But a civil war stands between...
...past month Liberians have been burying new dead and bandaging new wounded as they wait for a promised peacekeeping force to arrive. Their hopes were raised Wednesday as a group of ten Nigerian officers toured the war-torn capital Monrovia to assess conditions for deployment of a battalion of troops. Elsewhere, the regional security organization ECOWAS announced that a contingent of 1,500 Nigerian troops would arrive in Liberia early next week to start the peacekeeping mission, and appealed to Liberia's president, indicted warlord Charles Taylor, to keep his word and take up asylum in Nigeria within three days...
...fighters, Nigerian forces displayed a brutality akin to that of some of the region's warlords, and UN officials later accused some Nigerian officers of corruption. More immediately, veterans of previous peacekeeping operations have warned that the scale of the Nigerian force envisaged for Liberia is insufficient to stabilize Monrovia...
...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 to insist on playing second fiddle. Once U.S. troops are off the coast of Monrovia, the political pressure on Washington to send them ashore is likely to grow exponentially...
...which many still view as Liberia's godfather more than 150 years after the country was founded by freed American slaves. Foreign diplomats say the risk that the U.S. will face resistance is low. "The Liberian people love Americans too much," says a Western regional analyst in Monrovia. "This really is one country in Africa where it would be relatively easy to solve the problem with a small stabilization force and a small capital investment...