Gambian MPs have voted affirmatively for the sending of peacekeeping troops to Sierra Leone to protect a shaky peace after recent upheavals in the country.<\/p>\n
Deputies on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for a motion to contribute troops to a West African peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone where tension still prevails following an abortive coup almost a year ago which former president Ernest Bai Koroma was accused of orchestrating.<\/p>\n
Koroma who was charged with treason over the bloody coup attempt, has been in exile in Nigeria since he was allowed to leave the country on health grounds.<\/p>\n
Gambian vice president Momodou Jallow was in the national assembly onTuesday to defend and seek support for a government motion to contribute a motorized infantry to Ecowas\u2019s stabilisation drive which the regional organisation will be funding in full, including troop allowances.<\/p>\n
Ecowas has resolved to establish a peeacekeeping in Sierra Leone to prevent a repeat of a devastating 11-year civil war which rocked the country between 1991 and 2002.<\/p>\n
In the past The Gambia despite having one of the smallest armies in West Africa has contributed troops to peacekeeping operations in the region including the famed ECOMOG t the height of the first Liberian civil war in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n
Ecowas already has peacekeeping missions in The Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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