The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Sierra Leone, Kingsley Amaning, met rebel leader Foday Sankoh and his aides on Thursday in Lome, in an ongoing effort to work out mechanisms for access to RUF-held areas in the country.
“The purpose of the meeting was to work out concrete arrangements whereby collaboration in the field could be established,” Amaning told IRIN.
He said the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) had confirmed that Josephine Tengbeh would be its representative on the Implementation Committee set up to ensure that humanitarian agencies have safe and unhindered access to all people in need. The Freetown government will be represented by Kanja Sesay.
The committee was set up on 3 June to implement the humanitarian element of the 18 May ceasefire accord between the RUF and the government.
In Freetown, discussions continued on the composition and timing of a planned humanitarian assessment mission to Pendembu, an RUF stronghold in Sierra Leone’s eastern Kailahun district, a humanitarian source said.
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