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West African mediators yesterday suspended ongoing peace talks on
Liberia for a week, saying renewed fighting between rebels and
President Charles Taylor's forces had compromised the process.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin will begin a
three-day visit to South Africa and Ghana tomorrow in a bid to
reaffirm Paris's commitment to helping the world's poorest
continent.
The defense ministry in Monrovia has accused the main rebel group
in the country, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy
(Lurd) of massing troops outside the capital Monrovia in...
The main points of a landmark truce signed yesterday between
Liberian rebels and President Charles Taylor's government to end
the West African country's four-year civil war, include:
The US has a moral duty to intervene in Liberia's civil war because
it helped to found the West African nation, the archbishop of
Monrovia said yesterday.
Liberian rebels besieging Monrovia yesterday pulled back to the
outskirts of the seaside capital, apparently to pave the way for a
truce with the forces of embattled President Charles Taylor.
Liberian rebel fighters who have advanced to the suburbs of the
capital Monrovia have asked the Italian Catholic community of
Sant'Egidio to mediate in their war with President Charles Taylor,
the...
Liberian President Charles Taylor and rebels fighting his regime
since 1999 will meet face to face for the first time from Wednesday
in Ghana to try and end a festering war that has spread chaos...