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A ceremony began in Monrovia yesterday to swear in Liberia's new
transitional leader Gyude Bryant, who is to steer the war-torn west
African country to elections in 2005.
United Nations troops patrolled the tense streets of the Liberian
capital Monrovia yesterday, one day after at least three people
were killed in clashes between rebels and government troops.
At least three people were killed and seven wounded yesterday in
clashes between rebels and government troops and militiamen as
United Nations peacekeepers began taking over from west African...
The leader of the Liberia's main rebel movement has returned to the
troubled west African country after nearly five years in exile in
neighboring Guinea, his movement said Wednesday.
In a surprise move, Liberia's caretaker government and rebel
leaders yesterday named businessman Gyude Bryant to head an interim
government tasked with reconciling and rebuilding the war-ravaged...
Cabinet has reaffirmed its principled agreement to a United Nations
request to send peacekeeping troops to war-torn Liberia to help
restore normality in the once-prosperous West African country.
Liberia's interim government and two rebel groups yesterday signed
a comprehensive peace pact that includes details of a new
power-sharing administration to end a four-year civil war.
Liberian President Moses Blah yesterday arrived in the Ghanaian
capital Accra for talks with rebel leaders focussed on pursuing
peace following the departure of former leader Charles Taylor.
South Africa would only give its final response to a request by the
United Nations for peacekeeping troops to be sent to Liberia once
the multilateral body had determined its requirements, Foreign...
An uncertain calm held in Liberia yesterday after rebels and
loyalists came under fresh US pressure to lay down their guns, the
commander of west African peacekeepers said.
President Thabo Mbeki's office and the defence ministry yesterday
night said no decision had been made yet to deploy South African
peacekeepers to strife-torn Liberia.
Liberia's former president Charles Taylor arrived in the Nigerian
capital Abuja late yesterday to begin his life in exile, following
his resignation from office earlier in the day.
President Thabo Mbeki, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, will depart for Monrovia today to
attend the ceremony during which president Charles Taylor will hand...