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600 former combatants hand over weapons

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    Some 600 ex-fighters out of an estimated 45,000 handed in their weapons in the last five days in Sierra Leone, a UN source told IRIN on Monday.

    Some 285 members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), 270 from the Civil Defence Forces (CDF) and 54 from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) have reported to demobilisation centres, the official said.

    The RUF and AFRC were allies in Sierra Leone’s civil war, while the CDF was made up of pro-government militias.

    The demobilisation is provided for in a peace agreement signed on 7 July in Lome by the RUF and Sierra Leone’s government.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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