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 MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Liberia's first postwar elections will take place on schedule next week, a mediator said Wednesday after emergency talks resolved a dispute that threatened to delay the long-awaited ballot.
Liberia's Supreme Court ruled last week that two presidential candidates initially excluded from the Oct. 11 vote could register to run. But U.N. officials said reprinting ballot papers to include their names would have delayed the vote.
Nigerian President Abdulsalami Abubakar, who flew Wednesday to Liberia to resolve the issue, told reporters after several hours of talks that the two independent candidates excluded from the poll had agreed to withdraw their bids to run.
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