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    The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Bernard Miyet, began a three-day trip to Sierra Leone on Sunday, Philip Winslow, UNAMSIL’s Chief Information Officer told IRIN.

    On the first day of his visit, Miyet went to Port Loko South Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) centre, and travelled to the northern town of Makeni where he visited a children’s centre run by CARITAS, the Catholic relief organisation. The RUF has released 212 child combatants in the Makeni area during the last 10 days, the Rome-based MISNA reported on Tuesday. The children, 32 of whom were girls, were handed over to CARITAS and are going through a rehabilitation programme at the centre.

    Miyet is due to travel to Bamako, Mali, also on Tuesday to meet President Alpha Konare, the current chairman of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Fred Eckhard, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General reported in New York on Friday.

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