/ 18 June 2000

A MONTH AFTER SANKOH’S ARREST, REBELS STILL ATTACK

ONE month after the arrest of Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh, small groups of his forces continue to make probing attacks, British army spokesman Captain Fergus Smith said Saturday. The most significant attack in recent days occurred Thursday morning, when some 150 of Sankoh’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels attacked Nigerian UN troops at Port Loko, 50km northeast of Freetown, the United Nations reported. Meanwhile, the RUF continues to hold 21 Indian peacekeepers prisoner in the extreme east of Sierra Leone, with another 230 still surrounded.