Sniper fire as Monrovians await arrival of peacekeepers

WEST AFRICAN military officers searched for camp sites and made other preparations yesterday for the long-promised deployment of peacekeepers to Liberia’s rebel-besieged capital.

Meanwhile, Monrovia’s newly hopeful people awoke to only scattered gunfire.

Love Marshall, aged 16, sang as she danced her broom across the floors of an abandoned downtown hotel, battered and crowded by refugees from two months of rebel offensives.