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Gambian troops leave for Bissau

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    A company of 140 Gambian soldiers left Banjul for Dakar, Senegal, today where they will join a French warship taking them on peacekeeping duties in Guinea Bissau, Gambian Foreign Minister Sedat Jobe told IRIN. The Gambians will join troops from Togo and Niger already in the Guinea Bissau capital, in a force to number some 600 men. Under the Abuja peace agreement the arrival of the West African intervention force, ECOMOG, should pave the way for the withdrawal of Guinean and Senegalese soldiers called in to prop up Vieira’s shaky hold on the country.

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