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Over 100 ex-SLA disarm

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    Some 158 former ex-SLA combatants, among them 77 child soldiers, surrendered their weapons on Thursday to the West African Peace Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) at Laia Junction some 50 km east of Freetown, a UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) source in Freetown told IRIN on Friday. The former fighters are part of a larger contingent based in the nearby Occra Hills. As of Friday, 2,884 of an estimated 45,000 former combatants have disarmed, according to UNAMSIL.

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