Heavy fighting broke out today between rival militias on the outskirts of Liberia's capital, prompting a West African peacekeeping force to rush troops to the area. Residents of Monrovia said fighters belonging to a rebel group led by Charles Taylor had attacked a mission school housing members of the five-nation peacekeeping force, which arrived in 1990 at the height of the country's civil war. They also attacked a rival militia controlling an important bridge across the Po River, nine miles from Monrovia.
Source: New York Times
