Mali is prepared to send peacekeeping troops to Sierra Leone again, President Alpha Omar Konare told Gabonese Africa No.1 radio on Tuesday.
“We are ready to send troops to Sierra Leone to join the ECOMOG force,” Konare said. “It is our duty to be present there and Mali is therefore ready.”
Malian units in ECOMOG were all withdrawn in August at the end of their mandated period.
Last week UNAMSIL said its 6,000-strong force would be made up of one battalion each from Kenya and India, which will be followed by a battalion each from Ghana and Nigeria, with one company from Guinea already in Sierra Leone as part of ECOMOG.
The Kenyan battalion is due in Freetown on Monday.
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