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Ghanaian and US forces have begun a four-week exercise in international peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, Ghana radio has reported.
The training - part of the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI)- is a follow-up to similar exercises last year in which some 800 Ghanaian troops took part, the radio said. It reported the director of training at the Ghana army headquarters, Colonel David Kattah, as saying that by the end of the training the Ghanaian Task Force should “be able to implement international peacekeeping agreements”.
ACRI is a US-sponsored training programme which, according to the US Department of Defence, is conducted in coordination with African partners, the Organisation of African Unity and the United Nations. It was begun in 1997.
Other African nations that have participated in the training programme include Senegal, Uganda, Malawi, Mali and Ethiopia, according to the US Department of Defence.
Ghana’s army has had experience in peacekeeping in numerous past and present conflict situations - from the Congo crisis of the 1960s to Lebanon and most recently Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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