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Shelling continues in Monrovia

MONROVIA (Liberia) july 28. West African, American and United Nations envoys negotiated a long-promised peace force for warring Liberia, as shelling persisted in the besieged capital and rebels and government forces battled for strategic bridges.

One rocket, fired by the President, Charles Taylor's troops from a high building, fell short and plowed into the bedroom of a home on the Government-controlled side of the capital, injuring eight civilians, aid workers said. As rebels pressed their siege of Monrovia — now in its ninth day — a Nigerian army spokesman said the first peace troops could deploy as soon Tuesday for a force seen as crucial to ending two months of fighting for the capital.

In Accra, Ghana, however, another day in what have been weeks of off-and-on talks on the peace mission brought no immediate announcement of any firm deployment date. The U.S. has said west African nations and the U.N. must take the lead in any rescue mission.

— AP

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