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Nambe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 02:58 PM
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Fresh fighting breaks out in Liberia
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Fresh fighting has broken out near Liberia's second city of Buchanan, as caretaker President Moses Blah tries to cement a peace deal to end 14 years of bloodshed.

Thousands of civilians have left their homes and are travelling along the main road leading from the rebel-held port city to the capital, Monrovia.

Fighting inside the capital has died down since West African peacekeepers, backed by US Marines, were deployed earlier this month. 000

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