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Libe
rian President Charles Taylor went into talks Saturday with his
Ivorian counterpart Laurent Gbagbo on the civil war Taylor flew to
the town of Kara in northern Togo, where he was met by Gbagbo and
Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema, who heads a contact group of
west African nations seeking to deal with the crisis.
All parties to the war that started in Ivory Coast with a rebellion
on September 19 have signed a ceasefire and formed a national
reconciliation government, but fighting continues close to the
western border with Liberia.
In that part of the country, Liberian mercenaries were recruited by
both the Ivorian armed forces and rebels, and reports from
refugees, rebels and a French peacekeeping force say that these men
are running wild and terrorising the civilian population.
Taylor's government has for its part denied any role in the
conflict in Ivory Coast, but each country has accused the other of
using Liberian forces in destabilisation bids. The Liberian
government has faced a mounting insurgency since 1999 - Sapa-AFP
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