LIBERIA: MONROVIA: HORRIFIC SCENES AS FIGHTING FLARES UP AGAIN

(14 May 1996) English/Nat Fighting has flared again in the Liberian capital Monrovia after two days of relative calm in the city. Only a day after rival faction leaders shook hands - fighters loyal to Charles Taylor’s N-P- F-L launched attacks around the Barclay training centre barracks where rival leader Roosevelt Johnson is holed up. But it appears that rival L-P-C and A-F-L forces beat Taylor’s forces back. Fighting began in the early hours of Tuesday morning and continued throughout the d