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Abuja to withdraw troops from ECOMOG

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    Most Nigerian troops with the West African Peacekeeping Monitoring Group, ECOMOG, will begin pulling out of Sierra Leone next month, Information Minister Dapo Sarumi said on Wednesday.

    "We expect that as from August 26 our troops will be returning," he told reporters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

    This announcement followed a recent peace accord between the Sierra Leonean government and the Revolutionary United Front which had been waging a war against successive governments in the country. ECOMOG troops expelled the rebels from Freetown in February 1998.

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