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For the past month Liberians have been burying new dead and bandaging new wounded as they wait for a promised peacekeeping force to arrive. Their hopes were raised Wednesday as a group of ten Nigerian officers toured the war-torn capital Monrovia to assess conditions for deployment of a battalion...
Still, help in some form is on the way. A U.S. Marine force is steaming towards Liberia's coastline and should arrive within three days - but with no orders to go ashore. The Bush Administration is reluctant to be drawn into a potentially open-ended nation-building exercise in a...
If anything, the delay of promised peacekeeping forces appears to have encouraged more fighting. Despite cease-fire agreements, rebel groups have launched repeated offensives to capture the capital and the second city, Buchanan, over the past three weeks, leaving hundreds of civilians dead in the ensuing battles. The goal is...
"If I were to leave this country before the peacekeeping troops arrive in this city, I see disaster, I see mayhem, I see rape, I see total destruction." CHARLES TAYLOR, President of Liberia, at a prayer meeting in a stadium housing those made homeless by his country's civil war...
Conversational murmur swells slightly as more arrive and claim their meals.