Under the peace agreement, rebels were supposed to go to UN monitored disarmament centres, to be set up by the end of August. Rebel leaders say their fighters are short of food and medicine and pose no threat to Freetown residents. British Airways Travel clinics announced on Monday that the Malawian Ministry of Health had confirmed 66 cases of the plague until July 11, but said no deaths had been attributed to the disease. The disease struck seven villages in the southern Nsanje district, which borders Mozambique. Mozambican authorities have detected 200 cases on their side of the border, according to travel clinics medical director Dr Andrew Jamieson.
People acquire the disease when bitten by fleas that live on rats.
The heavily-armed police drove into Sagamu late on Sunday to restore order to the town 80km northeast of the commercial capital Lagos, hours after violence erupted earlier Sunday between members of the local Yoruba and Hausa communities. Ogun State Governor Olusegun Osoba announced an overnight curfew and said he is determined order will be restored. A SHOP selling relics of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, including victims' bones and skulls, will soon start operating in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania one of the people involved told the Tanzanian Daily Mail. . Among articles to be sold by the group are video cards, ordinary cassettes, victims' clothes and other items related to the bloodbath. The shop owners are also thinking of displaying and selling bones and skulls of genocide victims, but this will need permission from the Rwandan government.