Liberian clashes leave 330,000 homeless
Liberian President Charles Taylor has said the latest fighting in the country’s two-year-old civil war has left 330,000 civilians in the north of the country homeless.
Taylor said four northern towns, Salayea, Zorzor, Voinjama and Foya, have been cleared of their inhabitants as government troops battle with dissidents near the border with Guinea.
Amnesty International has accused the Liberian forces of raping women and torturing civilians, but Taylor denied these claims.
Journalists have been refused access to the area where the fighting is taking place.
