Liberia: Rebels opposed to the government of Liberian President Charles Taylor have entered the suburbs of the capital Monrovia.
An aid worker who fled her home in the suburb of Brewerville said her children had seen the rebels from the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) group, in Banjor, a western suburb.
There was fighting very close to the town of Duala, she said, adding that the rebels were seeking to cross a bridge leading towards the capital.
The reports of fighting came as Mr Taylor, who briefly went to Ghana on Wednesday for peace talks with the LURD rebels, announced that an abortive coup attempt had been made against his regime.
LURD, one of several groups fighting Mr Taylor's forces, controls a large part of the west African country, where civil war has left an estimated 200,000 people dead since the 1980s. - (AFP)
