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Last two POW's return home

Two Malian prisoners of war captured by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) while serving in the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in Sierra Leone have returned home, Radio Mali announced on Tuesday. They were released on Sunday following negotiations by Malian and Sierra Leonean officials in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The remaining Malian peacekeepers had already been withdrawn by 18 August at the end of their six-month tour of duty. The two men were captured on 7 May when the RUF attacked Port Loko, 60 km northeast of Freetown, which the Malians had been defending alongside Nigerian units. Mali had 428 peacekeepers in ECOMOG

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