/ 26 February 1998

200 junta troops surrender

TUESDAY, 3.00PM:

MORE than 200 soldiers, thought to be sympathetic to Sierra Leone’s toppled junta, surrendered to Nigerian-led Ecomog intervention forces in Sierra Leone’s Kambia district on Thursday.

Ecomog troops seized large amounts of arms and ammunition from the soldiers, including over 100 assault rifles, mortar bombs and grenades, a dozen machine guns, and 200 loaded magazines, according to Lieutenant Yeka Camilo, a Guinean Ecomog officer.

Among the soldiers who surrendered was a member of the Armed Forces of Liberia and a rebel of the Revolutionary United Front, which joined junta forces shortly after last May’s coup.