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Military chiefs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have decided to deploy 1,676 regional peacekeeping troops to Guinea’s troubled borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone, an official statement said.
The statement issued at the end of a meeting which began in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Wednesday and lasted until the early hours of Thursday, said the troops from Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal will be deployed within one month after a meeting of the contributing countries scheduled for 12 January to work out final details.
Deployment will be for an initial six months, the ECOWAS Defence and Security Council - comprising army chiefs and defence ministers - decided.
[For full report see item ‘WEST AFRICA: ECOWAS to deploy 1,676 troops to Guinea border’
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