The US assessment team had been briefed by aid workers and, as it left the US embassy in a ten-vehicle convoy for the camps, passed local Monrovians shouting "We want peace, we want Bush!" The 32-member US assessment team was on its way to the VOA camp for Sierra Leonean refugees (about 15 kilometers east of the capital) when it was stopped at Iron Gate (about 10 kilometres from the city center) by troops loyal to Taylor and told to return to Monrovia. No reason was given for the forced turn-around.

The United Nations was reading the rescue ship Overbeck for a second roundtrip voyage to Monrovia, to ferry Sierra Leonean refugees home to Freetown. The first voyage brought 300 refugees out on the 6th. About 366 Sierra Leonean refugees have registered for the second emergency evacuation to Freetown. 

The Liberian peace talks resumed in Accra, Ghana between the Liberian government and Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), the Movement for Democracy and Elections in Liberia (MODEL), along with representatives of political parties and civil society. - Adam Geibel


The UN-backed tribunal in Sierra Leone that indicted Liberian President Taylor for war crimes said that the asylum offer by Nigeria would not grant him immunity from the charges. - Adam Geibel