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Fighting continues in Lofa1

    NAIROBI

    Government troops sent to the north Liberian county of Lofa to dislodge dissidents who began attacking locations there on Saturday are reported to have reached the county capital of Voinjama.

    “Both dissidents and government troops are within the town,” located 260 km north of Monrovia, a political analyst close to the Liberian military told IRIN on Wednesday.

    The government announced that one senior immigration officer had been killed but did not release any other casualty figures or the number of prisoners taken.

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