Liberia - Factional Fighting Continues

T/I: 10:07:50 Calm returned to Monrovia on Wednesday (15/5) after a day of fierce factional violence that left at least two civilians and more than 15 fighters dead. The Liberian capital was gripped in fierce gun battles most of Tuesday (14/5) with faction fighters moving through the streets of the smoking wasteland that was once the city’s thriving centre. Many of the dead, gunmen loyal to Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), were impaled with bayonets and lances by fighters
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