Guinea Bissau’s self-styled military junta has given Senegalese troops 48 hours to leave the country now that ECOMOG troops have begun arriving, MISNA reported today, quoting a radio announcement by the junta’s spokesman.
Gambian and more Togolese troops are due to be flown into Bissau today, bringing to 600 the estimated number of ECOMOG troops that are to be deployed in the country, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported.
Under the Abuja peace accord signed on 1 November 1998 by rivals President Joao Bernardo Vieira and junta leader General Ansumane Mane, Guinean and Senegalese troops must withdraw as ECOMOG intervention troops arrive to oversee implementation of the deal. Presidential and legislative elections are to be held by end March.
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