Liberian Civil War Pushes University to Relocate; American U. of Beirut Lures Back Top Scholar of Islamic History

In the midst of a new civil war in Liberia, Cuttington University College has resumed classes in a temporary building in Monrovia, the capital.

The region around its campus near Gbarnga, 100 miles away, was taken over by a rebel army last month.

Faculty members and the more than 500 students of the college were moved to Monrovia in a convoy guarded by police as fighting around Gbarnga escalated between government forces and the rebel army, which calls itself Liberians United

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