"Since its intervention in Liberia on 25 August 1990, ECOMOG — the Monitoring Observer Group of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) — has entered other trouble spots along the West African coastline, notably Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau. Although ECOMOG encountered several difficulties, as will be discussed below, it has been labelled a prototype or future model for African peacekeeping by some within and outside Africa." (Quoted from paper)