Mano River Union defence ministers meet

Defence and national security ministers of the Mano River Union (MRU) countries are reviewing the security situation in the subregion at a three-day meeting that opened on Wednesday in Monrovia, Liberia, the Pan-African News Agency (PANA) reported. The MRU countries are Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The meeting will also work out a timetable for implementing proposals which the MRU's joint security committee put forward at two previous meetings in Sierra Leone and Guinea. According to Liberia's national security advisor, Lewis Browne, a highlight of the meeting will be a proposal for MRU members to apprehend individuals who harbour "inimical intentions" against their home countries and turn them over to their governments, PANA said. Guinea and Sierra Leone, on the one hand, and Liberia on the other, have long accused each other of harbouring dissidents trying to destabilise their respective countries.