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Soldiers complete peacekeeping course

Forty-one Malian soldiers concluded a one-month peacekeeping training session at the National Gendarmerie School in Bamako on 25 June, Radio-Television Malienne reported. The training course was part of the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), a programme mounted by the US military and aimed at helping African nations produce peacekeepers capable of facing the crises breaking out in Africa and in the world.

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