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01-05-04, 21:51
Some 19,000 former Liberian combatants have handed in their weapons, the United Nations mission there says.
This is almost half of the 40,000 fighters, many of them children, who took part in Liberia's long civil war.
The ex-combatants from all sides are eager to disarm, a UN spokeswoman told BBC News Online.
The 14-year conflict ended last year when President Charles Taylor stepped down and was replaced by a power-sharing government.
The interim authority is due to organise elections next year and a restructured National Elections Commission was sworn in on Friday morning.
The commission is headed by former supreme court judge Frances Johnson-Morris.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3673097.stm)
This is almost half of the 40,000 fighters, many of them children, who took part in Liberia's long civil war.
The ex-combatants from all sides are eager to disarm, a UN spokeswoman told BBC News Online.
The 14-year conflict ended last year when President Charles Taylor stepped down and was replaced by a power-sharing government.
The interim authority is due to organise elections next year and a restructured National Elections Commission was sworn in on Friday morning.
The commission is headed by former supreme court judge Frances Johnson-Morris.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3673097.stm)