An economic blockade of NPFL-held territory is imposed in December. Distrustful, the NPFL calls for a UN peacekeeper force. By October, some 200,000 IDPs, fleeing renewed fighting in the west, arrive in Monrovia. UN imposes arms embargo on all factions. More refugees flee to Guinea.
Arms embargo is ineffective.
Nigerian elections are held and annulled. Disarmament and encampment are rescheduled through the signing of the Cotonou Accord on 25 July. The LNTG is headed by a five-member Council of State responsible for the allocation, through consensus, of posts in the cabinet, public corporations and autonomous government agencies. No members of the LNTG can run for office. General Sani Abacha assumes Nigerian presidency in November and key francophone peacebroker, President Houphouet-Boigne of Cote d'Ivoire, dies in December.