41.   Liberian factions meeting here to end five years of civil war by appointing a collective presidency were locked in stalemate late Tuesday, delegates to the talks said.

42.   Nigerian junta chief General Sani Abacha and President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana were leading the negotiations between warring Liberian factions and politicians and civilian representatives.

43.   Other UN sources said they believed several Liberian factions had now joined in the clashes, with some fighting alongside the police and others allied to the Johnson loyalists.

44.   Six civilians have been killed in clashes between two Liberian factions in neighbouring Ivory Coast, government officials here said Wednesday.

45.   The Abuja accord was the eleventh signed between the Liberian factions.

46.   The Council of State is a transitional collective presidency created set up under a peace deal among rival Liberian factions.

47.   The leader of a Liberian armed faction Tuesday accused the African peacekeeping force of attacking positions held by his men.

48.   The Liberian factions agreed a timetable for peace, which theoretically provides for Liberian elections next August, in the Nigerian federal capital of Abuja in August last year.