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Heads of state to meet on Sierra Leone

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    West African leaders are to discuss the crisis in Sierra Leone at an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Abuja, news organisations reported. PANA and AFP reported that the meeting was called by Alpha Oumar Konare, the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and that the heads of state and leaders of Sierra Leone and members of an ECOWAS joint implementation committee set up to monitor the Lome peace agreement between the Sierra Leonean government and rebels had been invited. The committee comprises Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria and Togo. A similar meeting involving leaders of the Mano River Union (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone) was held in Conakry on Monday.

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