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Talks still give hope for peace

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    Peace talks between the Sierra Leonean government and the RUF, deadlocked over power sharing in a transitional government, still have a chance of success, news organisations reported mediators as saying.

    “There is a glimmer of hope,” AFP quoted Togo’s foreign minister, Joseph Koffigoh, as saying on Sunday. According to AFP, Koffigoh - whose nation chairs the 16-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) trying to broker a peace deal - said there had been agreement on the RUF turning into a political party.

    Agreement had earlier been reached on key issues such as the release of POWs and the opening of highways for the delivery of humanitarian supplies, but not on an RUF demand for a transitional government in which the rebels would take part.

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