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MONROVIA, Liberia: Sporadic shooting continued in Monrovia as a US. helicopter whisked Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson out of the country. US. officials say Johnson is slated to attend a summit conference in Accra, Ghana next week which could end six-year old civil war in Liberia. Spokesman Mike mockery said the White House endorsed the summit and stands ready to support any legitimate democratically elected government. "This won't be the first summit they've had," says Time's Marguerite Michael's. "There are two ways to stop the fighting. One is to come in with heavy firepower and force...
...Liberian Coup Attempt Fails...
Peacekeepers from eight West African nations used tanks and gunboats to defeat a faction of the former Liberian army that tried to overthrow an interim government; it was the latest outbreak of fighting in Liberia's five-year-old civil war. The attempted putsch came three days after the country's three main warring factions signed a United Nations-approved peace pact...
...airport runway to impede Nigerian troops. He spent a scary night holed up in a dilapidated beachfront hotel, he says, "listening to artillery fire mingled with the sound of crashing waves as I filed a story on a laptop computer." On his way out the next day, three Liberian "security" officials detained Purvis in a small room at the airport and shook him down for a $60 bribe. It was pay or stay. "They each got $20, which was big money to them," he says...
Bantu, who is from Liberia, said that he askedCohen specific questions about the Liberian civilwar...