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Lome still valid one year on

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    The Lome Peace Agreement is "essentially a valid document that is still useable in the present crisis" in Sierra Leone, parliamentarians, church
    leaders, and representatives of political parties and civil society agreed on Friday.

    They made that assessment at a seminar held to review the implementation of
    the 7 July 1999 agreement between Sierra Leone's government and
    Revolutionary United Front (RUF).

    In a joint statement, participants in the seminar also called on the
    government and the international community to encourage the RUF to identify a new leader to replace Foday Sankoh, detained for over a month now.

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