Rebels opposed to the government of Liberian President Charles Taylor have entered the suburbs of the capital Monrovia, an eyewitness said on Thursday.
Government troops battled rebels in Liberia as representatives of the warring parties and international mediators gathered on Wednesday in Ghana for talks to end three years of civil war in the west African nation.
The United Nations’ top refugee official condemned Liberia’s handling of its growing humanitarian crisis on Wednesday, telling top leaders, ”You’re killing your own people.”
Hundreds of Liberian women peace activists have begun a non-violent campaign to persuade the government and rebels to cease the continuing war in their West African country.
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/ 5 February 2003
Hundreds of civilians, mainly women and children, fled fighting on Tuesday in Kley District, 37 kilometres west of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, between Liberian government forces and members of the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (Lurd).
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/ 20 January 2003
Gunmen seized a Liberian border town in an attack launched from Ivory Coast, in a ”blatant violation” of Liberia’s territorial integrity, President Charles Taylor’s private radio claimed on Monday.
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/ 14 January 2003
A three-day consultative meeting that brought together Liberia’s 18 registered political and other pro-democracy groups have recommended, among other things, that in the absence of a national census a thorough voters registration be conducted in the presence of political party representatives.
Liberia’s police chief Paul Mulbah on Wednesday led riot police in whipping school pupils to break up a peaceful protest in Monrovia, journalists at the scene reported.