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Taylor Expected to Step Down Tomorrow
Aired August 10, 2003 - 11:05 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: In Liberia, a warlord turned president prepares to give up power. Charles Taylor is expected to step down tomorrow. His departure could bring peace to a nation warring against itself. CNN's Jeff Koinange is in Liberia's capital with the very latest.
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JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On the eve of what many here are calling a historic day in this country's history, the mood is one of anticipation and also one of a sense of uncertainty.
We are here right outside the president's residence in a part of the city known as Congo Town. Now, the president is behind those walls, there. We understand he is working on his address to the nation, scheduled for sometime Sunday. And in it he is supposed to tell Liberians he is stepping down Monday, and after that, leaving the country.
Also on this day we got a chance to talk to the man who would be president, Vice President Moses Blah. And we asked him how he feels on the eve of this day that he will take over the reins of this country.
MOSES BLAH, LIBERIAN VICE PRESIDENT: I'm calling to the rebels. I'm a unifier. I'm calling them to reunite us, to beg them come lay down their arms and join me to run this government. I have no interest becoming president of this country. I just want to reunite them.
KOINANGE: Also on this Sunday in this capital of about a million and a half people, give or take another 100,000 displaced Liberians, people going to church, praying for a miracle, praying that peace will finally return to this war-ravaged nation, praying that the peacekeepers will get access to the port to bring in much-needed aid, and much-needed humanitarian relief to this troubled nation.
Jeff Koinange, CNN, Monrovia, Liberia.
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Aired August 10, 2003 - 11:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: In Liberia, a warlord turned president prepares to give up power. Charles Taylor is expected to step down tomorrow. His departure could bring peace to a nation warring against itself. CNN's Jeff Koinange is in Liberia's capital with the very latest.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On the eve of what many here are calling a historic day in this country's history, the mood is one of anticipation and also one of a sense of uncertainty.
We are here right outside the president's residence in a part of the city known as Congo Town. Now, the president is behind those walls, there. We understand he is working on his address to the nation, scheduled for sometime Sunday. And in it he is supposed to tell Liberians he is stepping down Monday, and after that, leaving the country.
Also on this day we got a chance to talk to the man who would be president, Vice President Moses Blah. And we asked him how he feels on the eve of this day that he will take over the reins of this country.
MOSES BLAH, LIBERIAN VICE PRESIDENT: I'm calling to the rebels. I'm a unifier. I'm calling them to reunite us, to beg them come lay down their arms and join me to run this government. I have no interest becoming president of this country. I just want to reunite them.
KOINANGE: Also on this Sunday in this capital of about a million and a half people, give or take another 100,000 displaced Liberians, people going to church, praying for a miracle, praying that peace will finally return to this war-ravaged nation, praying that the peacekeepers will get access to the port to bring in much-needed aid, and much-needed humanitarian relief to this troubled nation.
Jeff Koinange, CNN, Monrovia, Liberia.
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