New attack in Nimba

Dissidents have attacked the north Liberian village of Yakima, a kilometre from the border with Guinea, PANA reported, quoting a senior Liberian military official. The agency said on Sunday that the unidentified attackers were repulsed by regular government troops supported by the Citizen Defence Action Committee, a self-defence militia. This, PANA said, was the second “armed incursion” in Nimba County. The first was on 21 November in the locality of Duotley. During the latest fighting, the government said, two soldiers were killed. They belonged to the 5th Infantry Battalion in Sanniquellie, 260 km northeast of Monrovia. Nimba County, where Liberian President Charles Taylor staged his own invasion of Liberia in December 1989 to overthrow President Samuel Doe, has recently been targeted by dissidents who began launching attacks in July from Lofa County.