Agency reporters assaulted in Liberia

The bodyguards of Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, have been accused of assaulting and intimidating journalists who had gathered at the airport in Monrovia to witness the signing of a non-aggression treaty with the president of Sierra Leone. The journalists, including Jonathan Paylelay of the BBC, Dosso Zoom of Radio France International and Alphonso Towah of Reuters, complained of ill-treatment. (Via AllAfrica.com)