SIERRA LEONE: RUF urges ECOWAS to intervene over elections

Former rebels of the Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP) are appealing to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene in forthcoming elections in Sierra Leone following a declaration by the country's electoral commission that RUF leader, Foday Sankoh, was ineligible to stand as a presidential candidate, Sierra Leone Web reported on Thursday.