Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader Foday Sankoh was in the northern town of Makeni on Monday as part of a sensitization tour of areas under the control of the former rebel group, a humanitarian source told IRIN.
The source said the RUF leader received an enthusiastic welcome from a large crowd of supporters when he arrived in Makeni at the weekend, and that he was expected back in Freetown in Wednesday.
The former rebel leader has been travelling to various parts of the country with the stated aim of getting his troops to support the 7 July peace agreement between the RUF and Sierra Leone’s government. Earlier last week he travelled to Daru and Segbwema in the east.
The UN Deputy Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Carolyn McAskie, who visited Sierra Leone on 8-11 November, told IRIN on Friday that “humanitarian agencies are still unable to go to large tracts of the north”.
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