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ECOWAS Military chiefs to meet

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    Military chiefs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) begun meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Wednesday to work out final details for the deployment of regional peacekeepers to Guinea’s troubled borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to news reports. AFP reported a source close to Mali’s president, Alpha Konare, also the chairman of ECOWAS who recently returned from a trip to Guinea and Liberia, as saying that the leaders of both countries wanted “a rapid” deployment of the troops. ECOWAS leaders decided at a meeting on 16 December in the Malian capital, Bamako, to place the peacekeepers along the borders of Guinea with Liberia and Sierra Leone in order to check cross-border raids that have displaced hundreds of thousands of Guineans and Sierra Leonean refugees.

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