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Over 100 ex-SLA disarm

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    Some 158 former ex-SLA combatants, among them 77 child soldiers,
    surrendered their weapons on Thursday to the West African Peace Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) at Laia Junction some 50 km east of Freetown, a UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) source in Freetown told IRIN on Friday. The former fighters are part of a larger contingent based in the nearby Occra Hills.

    As of Friday, 2,884 of an estimated 45,000 former combatants have
    disarmed, according to UNAMSIL.

    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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