Sierra Leone’s foreign minister, Sama Banya, announced on Monday the immediate release of 171 RUF prisoners, as a gesture of the government’s good will, AFP reported.
He told reporters in Freetown, at the end of a day-long visit by presidents Alpha Omar Konare of Mali and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria that 156 RUF detainees would be freed from prisons in Freetown, 11 from the southern city of Bo and four from Kenema in the southeast.
”It is now left with the RUF to convince the people that it is sincere in its desire to work for sustainable peace in Sierra Leone,” he said.
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