BBC News with Nick Kelly
The United Nations refugee agency says 14,000 Ivorians have fled to neighbouring Liberia to escape the violence that followed last month's disputed presidential election in Ivory Coast. Peter Miles has the details.
A spokes[wo]man for the UNHCR told the BBC it had so far
count
ed 14,000 refugees from Ivory Coast in Liberia. Most of them came from villages in the west of the country, and the vast majority were supporter[s] of Alassane Ouattara, the presidential
contender
backed by the international community. The spokeswoman said the refugees had been walking for days to escape a situation they feared could explode into violence and the flow was continuing. Meanwhile, the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo is clinging on in defiance of growing international calls for him to hand over power.
President Obama has led international condemnation of a suicide bombing in Pakistan which killed at least 40 people and injured another 60. The bomber, reported to be a woman, attacked a large gathering of displaced people in the town of Khar, in Bajaur district in the northwestern tribal region. The victims, who mostly belong to a tribe opposed to the Taliban, had been waiting for United Nations food
ration
s. Mr Obama said the United States would strongly support Pakistan's efforts to ensure peace, security and justice for its people. Pakistani helicopter gunships backed by artillery later killed 40 suspected insurgents in the neighbouring region of Mohmand.