/ 28 October 1999

100 DEAD IN ONGOING S LEONE CLASHES

SOME 100 soldiers from Sierra Leone’s ousted junta are believed to have been killed during a week of clashes with their erstwhile rebel allies in northern Make ni, commuters and journalists said on Wednesday.”These once friendly forces have now turned sworn enemies,” said textile businessman Al lieu Sank oh, who has just returned to Freetown from the embattled town, some 140 kilo metres northeast of the capital. Dozens of travellers, while reporting some 100 dead among the ex-junta, the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFAR), did not mention casualties among the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUFF).