Liberia Peace Talks Planned Friday
Two rival Liberian rebel commanders will meet Friday for U.S.-brokered peace talks aimed at ending that country’s nine-month civil war, officials from the West African Economic Community said Sunday.
Rebel leader Charles Taylor and his former ally Prince Johnson will meet in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for talks that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen arranged with the two men last week, according to the officials.
A cease-fire has been in place since Saturday. Taylor--in an apparent bargaining tactic--announced Sunday that he wanted to hold elections Oct. 10, according to the French news agency Agence France-Presse.
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