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ECOMOG pushes east, bombs west

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    Sierra Leonean President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has said there was now “only a military solution” to the country’s crisis, Reuters reported yesterday (Monday). “We have to push the rebels far, far from Freetown,” he was quoted as saying after talks in the capital with visiting Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff Al-Amin Daggash and Foreign Minister Ignatius Olisemeka. Daggash said his troops were making progress against the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and were moving slowly towards the east, news agencies said. Meanwhile, the Nigerian-led West African intervention force ECOMOG bombarded rebel positions on the western edge of Freetown early today (Tuesday), Reuters reported. It quoted ECOMOG officers as saying they were targeting rebel infiltrators in the area.

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