Liberia chooses businessman to lead the way to peace

LIBERIA’S rebels and government yesterday chose a gentle-mannered businessman to lead a transition administration that aims to guide the country out of 14 years of civil war.

The announcement came at the close of 78 days of peace talks with international mediators.

In Monrovia, the UN envoy for Liberia said he would ask the Security Council for 15,000 troops to secure the peace what would be the UN's largest deployment in the world.