51.   However, African peacekeepers said they were unaware of any violation of the truce.

52.   In another development, African peacekeepers Monday rescued a cargo vessel suffering serious problems off the coast of Liberia.

53.   A battalion of African peacekeepers in Liberia has deployed in the southeastern port city of Greenville, a military statement said Wednesday.

54.   A multinational peacekeeping exercise under way in Zimbabwe aims to show that African conflicts are better settled by African peacekeepers than by western intervention, according to military experts.

55.   A prisoner was shot dead and three others escaped as African peacekeepers tried to stop a breakout from a jail in central Monrovia, prison authorities said Wednesday.

56.   A witness said that as Monday morning, the African peacekeepers had not deployed around the Barclay base.

57.   African peacekeepers fired tear gas and bullets mid-morning Monday as renewed peace demonstrations in the Liberian capital turned violent.

58.   African peacekeepers in the war-torn west African country of Liberia on Tuesday said they had reopened a key highway between two strategic cities.

59.   But he warned that the UNOMIL presence depended on that of African peacekeepers of the ECOMOG force.

60.   Two main highways leading out of the Liberian capital cut by factional fighting have been cleared by African peacekeepers, civilians who had travelled the roads said Thursday.