A one-day UN humanitarian mission went to Kabala, some 220 km north of Freetown, on Tuesday, to report on the situation there and make recommendations on a future course of action, HACU said.
Insecurity continues to grow in the Kabala area where RUF rebels continue to push ex Sierra Leone Army soldiers from their bases in the north, HACU reported. Many of these soldiers are now in Kabala and have surrendered their weapons to loyal SLA troops while others remain on the outskirts of town and have been responsible for looting, HACU said. Fighting in the region between Makeni and Kabala has resulted in the movement of 1,000 civilians north into Kabala, it added.
A high incidence of abduction, looting rape and physical attacks against civilians has been reported this month in the Kabala region, the spokesman for the Secretary-General said on Tuesday.
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