21.   It called for African peacekeepers to step in once a cease-fire was implemented and Ugandan troops withdrew.

22.   It spread across the city after African peacekeepers charged with enforcing the truce fled their positions, including two crucial bridges leading into the city.

23.   It calls for a cease-fire, a withdrawal of Rwandan and Ugandan troops and the deployment of African peacekeepers.

24.   Libya has called for African peacekeepers to go to Congo if a cease-fire is implemented.

25.   Nyakyi said rebels were holding hundreds of Liberian, Lebanese and other foreign civilians, as well as African peacekeepers, at a military barracks in the capital.

26.   On Thursday, African peacekeepers in full battlegear patrolled the streets, and United Nations workers were advised to stay indoors.

27.   NPFL defense minister Gen. Daniel Chea displayed stacks of assault rifles to be handed over to African peacekeepers.

28.   Reports from Monrovia indicated that the African peacekeepers have stayed out of the fighting.

29.   Rebel fighters held hundreds of civilians and African peacekeepers captive Tuesday and the United Nations began flying some its staff out after three days of fierce fighting and looting.

30.   Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said Wednesday he supported a U.S. program to train and equip African peacekeepers, calling it an important step forward.