Liberia 'basically destroyed', says UN envoy

Liberia is “basically destroyed” and the country’s only hope is for the international community to quickly send more aid to the war-ravaged West African country, the UN’s special representative to Liberia has said.

Jacques Paul Klein, an experienced US military adviser who headed the UN mission in Bosnia, welcomed news that Nigeria planned to send the first troops of a multinational force, but expressed doubt that the force would arrive in Liberia within a week as promised.