Foday Saybana Sankoh

President Ahmad Tejan Kabba is edging towards some form of agreement with Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front following their talks at Yamoussoukro Côte d'Ivoire on 22-23 April...

Maada Bio is due to hand over the presidency to Kabba on 29 March but on 24 March the Brigadier met Corporal Foday Sankoh of the Revolutionary United Front (AC Vol 37 No 3) in Yamoussoukro Côte d'Ivoire in a meeting arranged by the International Committee for the Red Cross and the London-based conflict resolution organisation International Alert...

Agnes is a senior member of Corporal Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front and it seems she is behind the rebels' offer of a ceasefire and unconditional talks made a week after Maada Bio's coup...

Their main problem would be that the losers from such an arrangement the northern Temne Limne and Yalunka have proved the most fertile recruiting grounds for Foday Sankoh and his rebels...

Military sources believe that these were not mounted by Corporal Foday Sankoh' s Revolutionary United Front but by dissident soldiers from the north trying to outmanoeuvre their south-eastern rivals...

The major parties contesting the poll remain in confusion much of the logistical work is incomplete and Corporal Foday Sankoh's rebel Revolutionary United Front has said the elections will not stop his war against Freetown...