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World Service,13 Feb 1998,29 mins

AFRC Regime Falls in Sierra Leone

This Week and Africa

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ECOMOG moves in to Sierra Leone and takes control from AFRC regime. The arrival of troops in Freetown ends one-and-a-half years of military rule in the country. Also on the programme, Vice President Al-Zubair Muhammad Saleh of Sudan dies in a plane crash.

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