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Retired army general appointed ambassador to Bissau

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    Senegal’s President Abdou Diouf has appointed a retired army general, Mamadou Niang, as ambassador to Guinea Bissau, PANA reported today.

    Niang headed the National Elections Observatory, which supervised the May 1998 parliamentary polls and January senate elections. His appointment was announced after a cabinet meeting held on Tuesday in the wake of the return of Senegalese troops from Guinea Bissau.

    Senegalese forces had been sent in June to Guinea Bissau to help President Joao Bernardo Vieira against army mutineers.
    According to PANA, the Senegalese troops, who on Tuesday completed their withdrawal from Bissau, have now been posted in Ziguinchor, southern Senegal, where separatists have been fighting government forces since 1982.

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