Liberia: August 15, 1999

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Rebels have been driven from three villages they invaded in northwest Liberia. The government charged that the rebels had come from bases in Guinea.

August 14; Up to 800 rebels have been raiding across northwest Liberia, fighting government troops sent in to restore order.

August 13; The government has accused neighboring Guinea of providing bases for Liberian rebels. Some of the disorder in the border region is a spill over from the civil war in nearby Sierra Leone. Guinea responded by putting its army on alert. An armed group in the area, calling itself the  Joint Forces for the Liberation of Liberia (JFLL) has been extorting UN aid workers, and even kidnapping some of them.

 

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