Ceasefire signed in Guines-Bissau

Dakar - Warring sides in Guinea-Bissau signed a Togolese mediated ceasefire agreement yesterday after four days of battles in…

Dakar - Warring sides in Guinea-Bissau signed a Togolese mediated ceasefire agreement yesterday after four days of battles in the capital, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported.

Details of the deal signed by President Joao Bernardo Vieira and rebel leader Brigadier Ansumane Mane in Bissau city, were not immediately known. But diplomatic sources said they expected West African peacekeepers, including some 300 from Benin and Niger waiting on a French navy ship off Bissau, to go in immediately.