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Sierra Leone says security force members apprehended by Guinea's military following border incursion
Sierra Leone reports Guinean forces detained security personnel and seized weapons amid a decades-long border dispute dating back to the civil war.
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Sierra Leone says members of its security forces held by Guinea in border row
FREETOWN, Feb 24 - Sierra Leone on Tuesday accused Guinea of capturing several members of its security forces, in the latest flare-up of a long-running row over border territory. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Sierra Leone says security force members apprehended by Guinea's military following border incursion
Sierra Leone's government says that several members of a security team including an officer have been apprehended and transported over the border by members of the Guinean military.
A border incident is currently between Guinea and Sierra Leone following the arrest of sixteen Sierra Leonean military personnel by the Guinean Armed Forces in Faranah Prefecture. While Conakry refers to an irregular incursion into its territory, Freetown denounces an operation carried out in Sierra Leonean territory, opening the way for an armed incident between Conakry and Freetown: 16 Sudanese soldiers arrested, contradictory versions appeare…
Sierra Leone said that Guinean army personnel illegally entered its territory and detained members of the Sierra Leonean security and defense forces. The Sierra Leonean Ministry of Information explained in a statement released Tuesday that the incident occurred Monday when Guinean army personnel crossed into the town of Kaliriye in the Phalapa district, within Sierra Leonean territory. According to the same statement, at the time of the incident…
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