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Obasanjo agrees Nigeria peacekeepers for Congo

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    Obasanjo also said he could foresee a role for Nigerian peacekeeping troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of a collaborative peace initiative with South Africa.

    “Under the right auspices and the right conditions,” a Nigerian peacekeeping force could be dispatched to DRC, he said.”We would like to see a situation where we can help a country like the Congo to help itself and where troops from other countries can be withdrawn. We can help to achieve this.”

    Obasanjo was an officer in Nigeria’s first UN peacekeeping mission to the Congo in the early 1960s.

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