Liberia's caretaker President Moses Blah returned home on Saturday after a rapid swing around the region to build a consensus for peace among West African leaders who have previously supported war in Liberia. Blah met the presidents of Ivory Coast, Guinea and Sierra Leone — three countries accused by former Liberian authorities of supporting rebellion inside the country's sieve-like borders.
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The aim of Blah's trip — which came after a peace deal was agreed this week between Liberia's warring factions — was to draw a line under more than a decade of intermeshed wars. Blah apologized for Liberian interference in neighboring wars, and promised a new era of peace and friendship in a region best known for the brutality of its criss-cross conflicts. "The meetings were very fruitful. He met with all the heads of state. It was geared towards the peace process," Liberian Foreign Minister Lewis Brown told Reuters on Saturday.
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