Sunday, January 20, 2013

ECOWAS urges members to hasten troop deployment in Mali

(AFP) - The emergency summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc has called on member states and Chad, which has pledged 2,000 troops, to put words into action without haste in the military intervention efforts in Mali.

At present, only about 100 African soldiers of a planned 5,800 African force have so far reached Mali.

A statement at the end of the Abidjan meeting called on the United Nations "to immediately provide financial and logistical

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