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Meanwhile, the security situation in the country had improved
substantially, with no reports of fighting so far this year, the OCHA report said. "The national army has suspended all offensive action as promised in the [ceasefire] accords" signed by some of the warring parties on 16 November and 29 December 1999, it said. Thousands of opposition militia members had already disarmed and were walking into towns to be received by the army, it said. Under the accords, the fittest among the demobilised militia are to be integrated into the army, while the rest are
to be assisted to return to civilian life. "Such young men will need to be able to earn a living peacefully if there is to be a lasting peace," the report stated.
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