Liberia -  Former Liberian rebel leader George Boley is to be deported from the US
over his role in the West African country's civil war in the 1990s.

  
A US judge said evidence that the ex-Liberian Peace Council leader had been involved in
killings and recruited children was grounds for his removal.

  Mr Boley, who has been in custody for two years, denies the accusations.

Around a quarter of a million people died during Liberia's 1989-2003 conflict.

  The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, says at the height of the civil
war there were seven armed groups fighting - and the LPC was one of the largest.

  In 1995, Mr Boley joined other warlords, including Charles Taylor, to lead an interim council
for about a year. After presidential elections in 1997, the conflict resumed.