Rebels take Liberia's second largest city
Rebels captured Liberia’s second-largest city today, defeating President Charles Taylor’s embattled forces on a new front and depriving him of his last significant port outside the besieged capital.
Gen. Benjamin Yeaten, a leading government commander, confirmed that the strategic city of Buchanan, 60 miles southeast of Monrovia, fell to fighters from Liberia’s second rebel group, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia, by nightfall.
