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Ex-fighters in reintegration programme

    ABIDJAN

    United Nations Volunteers (UNV) will begin a two-year training programme to promote peace in the southeastern Diffa region and the socio-economic reintegration of former anti-government rebels in the area.

    A UNV programme officer, Sidi Mohamed Toure, told IRIN on Thursday that 13 national and international volunteers would train and support 660 former guerrillas in agricultural micro-projects so they could be self-reliant. The participants, drawn from the 3,750 former fighters registered by Niger's Commission on Peace Restoration, will also be told that peace is an essential element to development.

    The US $695,661 programme will come from the UNV's Special Voluntary Fund, to which the UNDP and the French Cooperation agency have contributed. The UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Lome would provide technical aid.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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