Saturday 24th July 2004: President Kabbah left Freetown on Thursday, 22 July 2004 on a special Presidential Jet sent by President Olusegun Obasanjo to take President Kabbah to Abuja to participate in the Africa-wide launch of the UNDP Human Development Report for 2004.

During President Kabbah's journey to Nigeria he made a stop-over in Monrovia where he held talks with Chairman Gyude Bryant of Liberia. Their discussions centred on sub-regional peace and security, mainly within the Mano River Union basin and other issues of bilateral importance to the two neighbouring countries.

In Nigeria, President Kabbah delivered a paper on the 2004 Human Development Report before he returned to Freetown on Saturday July 24th 2004.

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