Wednesday, June 25, 2008

AU says Nigeria will send peacekeepers to Somalia




KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Nigerian military has sent a reconnaissance team to Somalia and is expected to deploy troops there soon as part of an African peacekeeping force, a spokesman for the force said on Tuesday.
The African Union had planned to send 8,000 soldiers to the capital Mogadishu to support the U.N.-backed interim government, which faces an insurgency by Islamist rebels. more..http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN455708.html

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