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President warns soldiers against unprotected sex

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    President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned soldiers against casual sex and urged them to use condoms if they must engage in such activity.

    AFP and international TV stations reported him as telling soldiers in the southwestern city of Benin on Thursday that 11 percent of their comrades who had returned from duty in Sierra Leone had contracted HIV.

    Nigeria sent 10,000 troops into Sierra Leone in 1997 on a peacemaking mission, and most were withdrawn earlier this year.

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