Liberia: UN finds money to send expelled former combatants back to school

The United Nations said on Wednesday that it had secured enough money to pay the school fees of nearly 4,000 former Liberian combatants who were expelled from secondary schools last month because there was no money left in the rehabiliation fund to pay for their tuition. Charles Achodo, a policy advisor of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), told reporters that all those ex-fighters who had been asked to leave school should be back in the classroom by the end of next week.