31.   The warning is the most explicit yet from the UN secretary-general to the Liberian faction leaders.

32.   They challenged the Liberian faction leaders to respect the Abuja peace agreement and called for a strong and effective ECOMOG operation to implement it.

33.   Two Liberian factions launched a joint offensive Tuesday against a military barracks where several thousand rival fighters are holed up along with hostages and refugees.

34.   ULIMO is one of three Liberian factions that signed a peace accord at Cotonou in neighbouring Benin a year ago.

35.   ULIMO is one of three Liberian factions that signed a peace accord at Cotonou in Benin in July last year.

36.   Two Liberian factions Tuesday resumed talks in a town just outside Monrovia aimed at getting two key highways reopened, the African peacekeeping force ECOMOG said in a statement.

37.   Liberian warring factions signed a peace agreement here Wednesday night to end five years of bloody civil war, an AFP correspondent reported from the Ghanaian capital.

38.   Liberian warring factions signed a peace agreement here Wednesday night to end five years of civil war, an AFP correspondent reported from the Ghanaian capital.

39.   Liberian faction leader Charles Taylor said Sunday that talks on the redeployment of African peacekeepers had not been finalized, but the ECOMOG force began redeploying here anyway.

40.   Liberian faction leader Charles Taylor said Friday that he had forbidden any more ships from leaving the war-torn capital of Monrovia.