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Ex-junta accuses RUF of kidnapping

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    A spokesman for the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC - former military junta) has accused the Revolutionary United Front of kidnapping some 500 of its soldiers in the east of Sierra Leone, AFP reported on Thursday.

    The AFRC’s Edward Nicol told AFP that the kidnappings took place on Wednesday night and Thursday morning at Pendembu, some 300 km east of Freetown. He described it as “regrettable” that the AFRC had violated the ceasefire in this way.

    There has been no independent confirmation of the allegation.

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