Gunshots trail refugees in lawless Liberia

AFTER walking for two days, Siatta Golafale gave birth by the roadside helped by a nurse who like her was fleeing the sound of gunfire in Liberia’s lawless countryside.

Breastfeeding her day-old baby boy at a clinic in a teeming refugee camp, she wonders when she will be on the move again.

“I am tired of running. I don’t want to run anymore,” she said. Like thousands of exhausted people streaming through Totota, a rundown town 72 miles northeast of the capital Monrovia, Golafale packed her meagre belongings as soon as she heard the rattle of gunshots in Gbatala, a town up the road.