Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders called on the United Nations on Wednesday to help the deployment of regional troops along the borders between Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The call came at a one-day extraordinary summit of the 13-member regional body in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
A communique issued at the end of the meeting expressed “great concern” over persisting tension along the common borders of the three countries and urged their governments “to take individual and collective measures to curb the activities of armed rebel groups operating on their respective territories”.
[See separate item titled ‘WEST AFRICA: ECOWAS seeks UN aid to deploy on Guinea’s borders’]
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