SIERRA LEONE: PEACEKEEPING TROOPS SEARCH PEOPLE AND CARS IN FREETOWN/BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER PETER PENFOLD PLEDGES TO HELP BRING PEACE TO SIERRA LEONE

Record ID: 350085

  • Title: SIERRA LEONE: PEACEKEEPING TROOPS SEARCH PEOPLE AND CARS IN FREETOWN/BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER PETER PENFOLD PLEDGES TO HELP BRING PEACE TO SIERRA LEONE
  • Date: 21st January 1999
  • Summary: FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE (JANUARY 20, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) * "LIVEWIRE " QUALITY AS INCOMING * 1. SLV/SV ECOMOG SOLDIERS SEARCHING CARS AND PEOPLE (5 SHOTS) 0.38 2. CU/SV/SLV MOTHERS AND CHILDREN IN REFUGE (3 SHOTS) 0.48 3. SLV/SV LORRIES ARRIVING/PEOPLE MOVING PACKS OF BLANKETS INTO NATIONAL SPORTS STADIUM; ARMED SOLDIERS KEEPING WATC
  • Embargoed: 5th February 1999 12:00
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  • Location: FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
  • Country: Sierra Leone
  • Reuters ID: LVA8XONSVC5WJ4KAF8MNFARQNY9R
  • Story Text: In Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, peacepeeking
    troops have been searching people and cars as they assert
    their presence.And British High Commissioner Peter Penfold
    has visitied the shattered city and pledged to help bring
    peace to the civil war-ravaged country.

    A mainly Nigerian ECOMOG regional force has been
    defending the government of Ahmad Tejan Kabba against rebels
    who invaded the capital Freetown on Janaury 6.Heavy fighting
    has damaged large parts of the city.

    Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire led by Togo and Ivory
    Coast stalled last week after Nigeria complained that the
    three countries which contributed troops to the peacekeeping
    force known as ECOMOG were being sidelined.

    Nigeria made clear that only it and fellow troop
    contributors Ghana and Guinea were entitled to dictate the
    pace of negotiations for a settlement.

    Security fears and complex logistical problems are holding
    up shipments of emergency food and medicines into Sierra
    Leone's war-battered capital Freetown, aid workers said on
    Wednesday.

    Kabba said ECOMOG forces has been a great help, and
    pledged to find way to what he called "sustainable peace" in
    the country.

    British High Commissioner Peter Penfold was out and about
    on Wednesday in Freetown.He said he wanted Britain to help
    bring peace and be at the forefront of humanitarian
    assistance.


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