UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for urgent deployment of an international force for Liberia, warning of a “humanitarian tragedy” in a war-ruined capital where fighting this week killed hundreds of trapped civilians.

A Ghana commission of inquiry has recommended charges against police over a stampede at an Accra soccer stadium which killed 126 fans.

Hundreds of Ghanaian youths returning from a funeral service for Muslim victims killed in Africa’s worst soccer disaster vented their anger by attacking a police station and destroying kiosks and street lights in a working class neighbourhood of the capital, Accra.