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Unwilling to commit troops anywhere in Africa after the Somalia debacle, the Clinton administration sloughed off the peacekeeping burden on ECOMOG, the corrupt Nigerian-dominated pan-African force that eagerly joined the tribal militias in the looting of Monrovia in 1996. The Krahn took hostages, including ECOMOG soldiers and some foreign nationals, specifically from the Lebanese business community. Nigerian Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi accused the United States of failing to give enough financial or technical aid to the Nigeria-led peacekeeping forces from West Africa, known as ECOMOG. |
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