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    A team of three World Bank experts on disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) briefed participants in the Lome peace talks on a DDR Programme for Sierra Leone currently under preparation, UNOMSIL reported on Wednesday. The programme assumes that 33,000 to 40,000 combatants in Sierra Leone will need to be disarmed and reintegrated into civil society once the civil war there is ended, the UN Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL) said. The World Bank has opened a multidonor trust fund to solicit contributions towards the US $33 million to $35 million the DDR requires. Britain has pledged US $10 million and the World Bank US $9.1 million to the programme, UNOMSIL said.

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