| Thousands of civilians fled the sound of fresh fighting near Liberia's second city of Buchanan on Saturday as caretaker President Moses Blah sought to cement a peace deal to end 14 years of bloodshed. Just days after the peace deal was signed, the West African nation's defense minister also said there was fighting around the northern town of Ganta. "This evening, our men came under fierce attack from the rebels and there is fighting taking place around the bridge toward Ganta. I believe that they are trying to retake Ganta," Daniel Chea told Reuters. The reports of fresh fighting in two areas underlined the fragility of the peace deal signed by Blah's government and two rebel groups, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) and a smaller faction known as Model. |