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US provides US $3 million in peacekeeping equipment

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    The US government is providing Ghana with US $3 million in uniform, vehicles and small arms to beef up the peacekeeping capacity of its armed forces, the state-owned ‘Daily Graphic’ of Accra reported on Friday.

    It quoted US Ambassador Kathryn Robinson as saying at a closing ceremony of a US-Ghana peacekeeping training exercise that the donation was Washington’s effort to restore stability in West Africa.

    The 10-week exercise featured 776 soldiers from Ghanbatt 4 - due to replace another Ghanaian unit serving with UNAMSIL in Sierra Leone - and their 120 US instructors from the Third Special Force Group Command, the daily reported. US peacekeeping training for selected West African armies was initiated by ex-president Bill Clinton and has been continued by the new occupant in the White House, President George W. Bush.

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