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World Service,20 Jun 1997,28 mins

Sierra Leone's Coup on the Ropes

This Week and Africa

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Sierra Leone's military coup fails to get recognition. People are refusing to go to work in protest of the new administration, which has failed to get any international backing. Also on the programme, mass graves discovered in Somaliland, a fist fight in Kenyan parliament and South Africa's Eugene Terreblanche sent to jail.

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