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Last UN Officer leaves Freetown

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    United Nations spokesman Fred Eckhard said yesterday the last international UNOMSIL staff member had left Freetown safely. Eckhard did not name the official in a daily press briefing yesterday following a troops contributions meeting on UNOMSIL. But a UN official in West Africa identified him as Michael Booth, a security official. He was whisked away in a helicopter carrying the UN Special Representative for Sierra Leone, Francis Okelo. Okelo had flown into Freetown from Conakry for a meeting with the foreign ministers of Cote d’Ivoire and Togo and rebel leader Foday Sankoh.

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