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Sierra Leone Says Guinean Troops Seized Its Security Personnel at Border Town

Freetown is pursuing official channels to secure the detained team's safe return.

FILE - Guinea's junta leader Col. Mamady Doumbouya watches over an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Overview

  • The detentions occurred Monday in Kalieyereh in Sierra Leone's Falaba district as personnel made bricks for a planned border post.
  • The group's weapons and ammunition were taken, according to the Sierra Leone government.
  • Sierra Leone says the site is recognized as its territory and that its national flag has been raised there.
  • Guinean authorities had not issued a public response to the reported apprehensions.
  • The incident comes in a decades-long border dispute dating to Sierra Leone's civil war, including a Guinean move into a mineral-rich town last year.