NIGERIAN-led Ecomog intervention force troops repelled a rebel attack against the northern Sierra Leonean town of Kambia earlier this week, Ecomog officials said on Thursday. They said rebels entered the town of Pamalap, close to Kambia and about 80km north of the capital, Freetown, on Monday. An Ecomog contingent of Guinean troops “opened up with heavy bombardment, scattering the rebels”, one official said. Ecomog said its troops are in control of Kambia despite a counter-claim earlier this week by a rebel field commander.