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US to train, equip West African troops

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    The United States has agreed to train and equip seven battalions of West African troops to be deployed as UN peacekeeping troops in Sierra Leone, PANA reported Thomas Pickering, the US under-secretary of state for political affairs as saying. Pickering, now on a five-nation West African tour, said in Nigeria at the weekend that the training would begin in August, PANA reported. He said the programme was part of Washington’s assistance to West African and UN peace efforts in Sierra Leone. The Nigeria-based Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) recently promised some 3,000 additional troops to help bring peace to Sierra Leone.

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