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Taylor concerned over hostilities

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    President Charles Taylor has expressed concern over fresh hostilities between supporters of RUF leader Foday Sankoh and Johnny Paul Koroma, his former ally, a media source in Monrovia told IRIN. “We want to discourage any and all action that could deter the (peace) process,” Taylor reportedly said at a news conference on Monday. Taylor added that he would soon send an emissary to Sierra Leone to talk to Sankoh and Koroma in order to prevent a return to war, the source said. The RUF and Koroma’s Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) became allies in May 1997 after the AFRC overthrew President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. The two groups took to the bush when ECOMOG ousted the AFRC junta in February 1998.

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