Sierra Leone arrests former rebel
Omrie Golley was “arrested and detained after suspicion he was engaged in subversive activities,” Ahmed Tejan Kabbah said in an announcement broadcast on state radio and television on Thursday. The government was “treating the matter very seriously”, President Kabbah said. Golley was a spokesman and senior political leader for the Revolutionary United Front rebel group, whose fighters infamously severed the limbs of their victims, terrorising the country and killing tens of thousands of civilians during a decade-long war that began in 1991. Full Story