Military officers from African countries said on Monday at the end of a joint military exercise that they were ready to set up a force to keep the peace and prevent conflicts in Africa.
“From the views that were exchanged and the results of our exercises, we can say that we are now prepared,” Chad’s chief of staff was quoted as saying by ‘Republic of Togo’, an online information service. “It’s now up to the decision-makers to create a corps,” the official said. Similarly, Colonel Saliou Ndiaye of Senegal said the region should not wait for human and material damage to take place but create a corps of technicians capable of intervening and taking care of displaced persons.
The exercise, ‘Cohésion Kozah 2OO1’, began on 20 April in Kara, northern Togo. Participants came from Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo.
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