/ 10 March 2000

ANNAN SLAMS S LEONE REBELS

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has accused ex-rebel leader Foday Sankoh of hampering peace in Sierra Leone. Annan, in a report to the Security Council, said Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front (RUF), although now part of the government, were hostile to U.N. peacekeepers and contributed to rising tensions in the tiny Western African nation.