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Intense fighting reported

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    Liberian officials said they were mobilising troops to support units fighting back a rebel incursion in northeastern Nimba County, PANA reported on Thursday.

    “Subsiding is not the word to use, because the fighting has just begun,” PANA quoted Defence Minister Daniel Chea as saying.

    The government said on Tuesday that dissidents had entered the area, located about 300 km from the capital, Monrovia, but it was unclear if they crossed the border from Guinea or Cote d’Ivoire.

    No group has claimed responsibility for the latest attack. Liberia and Guinea have persistenly accused each other of harbouring dissidents.

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