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Annan calls on rebel leaders to work for peace

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    United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday he trusted Sierra Leone’s former rebel leader and ex-junta chief would “ work resolutely” to implement the Lome peace agreement.

    The leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), Foday Sankoh and Johnny Paul Koroma, returned to Freetown on Monday, nearly three months after the accord was signed.

    The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Sierra Leone, Francis Okelo, reported that Sankoh and Koroma’s return to Freetown was greeted with a “sigh of relief” by Freetown residents, a UN spokesman said.

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