Liberia says rebels break ceasefire

LIBERIA'S government yesterday said rebels had attacked its forces on two fronts in a breach of a ceasefire agreed last week to end a war that has spilled chaos into West Africa.

Liberia says rebels break ceasefire

The truce has been looking ever more shaky since President Charles Taylor announced last week that he would not go before the end of his mandate in January, which rebels say would violate the ceasefire deal.

Taylor's spokesman said loyalist positions had been attacked late on Saturday by the LURD faction at Klay, some 22 miles north of the capital Monrovia, and by another rebel group known as Model in the southeast.

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