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Thousands of terrified civilians streamed out of the Liberian
capital Monrovia yesterday in search of safety, food and water as
fighting raged between government troops and rebels for control of...
British aid agencies issued a joint statement late yesterday in
which they called for the urgent deployment of international
peacekeepers to war-torn Liberia.
Liberia's President Charles Taylor has asked a Dutch lawyer to
represent him before a UN-backed tribunal in Sierra Leone where he
faces war crimes charges, the lawyer said yesterday.
Liberian government troops yesterday pushed back advancing rebels
trying to seize two key bridges which lead into the heart of the
capital Monrovia, as heavy fighting continued elsewhere in the...
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday outlined the
world body's likely strategy to help restore order in war-torn
Liberia, beginning with the arrival of a promised West African...
Focusing its attention on one of the world's most politically
troubled continents, the United Nations has decided to downsize its
peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone, upgrade its mission in...
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday paid a short visit
to the west African state of Guinea, it was believed for talks with
leaders there on the situation in war-torn Liberia.
The foreign minister of the Central African Republic (CAR) has
turned up at a summit of the African Union in Maputo, although his
government was not invited because it seized power by force,...