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Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service
Liberia's lower house of parliament has approved a motion to set up a war crimes court - more than two decades after the end of a devastating civil conflict. Malawian authorities say six people died and four were
In 2009 a Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended the establishment of the court but the move was resisted partly because a number of accused warlords remain influential. injured from last week’s flash floods in the central part of the country.
About a quarter of a million people died during Liberia's civil wars between 1989 and 2003. Over 14,000 people have been displaced, with most
The atrocities included massacres, rape, cannibalism and the forced recruitment of child soldiers. of them now staying in camps, the country’s Department of Disaster Management
Lawmakers danced and sang as the resolution to set up a war crimes court was passed. Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday.
It will now be debated by Liberia's Senate before being passed on to President Joseph Boakai. It said many of the places that were affected by the floods
are still inaccessible due to the extensive damage caused to roads and other infrastructure.
This has
hampered the delivery of aid, it said, with humanitarian workers mostly relying
on boats to reach affected areas.
The agency has appealed for more help from individuals, companies and aid organisations to support government's efforts to provide relief.
It comes just a year after hundreds of Malawians were killed
after Tropical Storm Freddy ripped through southern
Africa.
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