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Ghanaian military team visits ECOMOG High Command

A Ghanaian military delegation has given assurances that Ghanaian members of ECOMOG will continue to operate in West African peacekeeping missions. According to an ECOMOG press release sent to IRIN, the five-member delegation met ECOMOG Force Commander Major General Timothy Shelpidi on Friday. Shelpidi told the team that ECOMOG operations in Sierra Leone were strictly in compliance with the directives and authority of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

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