President Adama Barrow held a farewell ceremony at the State House for eighty ECOMIG officers, acknowledging their contributions to maintaining peace and democracy in The Gambia. He expressed deep gratitude to Senegal and ECOWAS for their unwavering support and emphasized that, despite the end of the ECOMIG mission, the close[Read More…]
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Nigeria Deploys 197 Peacekeepers To Gambia
The Nigerian Army on Friday completed pre-deployment training for 197 troops for a peace-keeping mission in Gambia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the troops of the Nigerian Company 8 ECOWAS Mission in the Gambia (NIGCOY 8 ECOMIG), began the pre-deployment training on 3 April. The training was[Read More…]
Nigerian Army To Deploy 197 Troops To Gambia
The Nigerian Army is set to deploy 197 troops for ECOWAS Peacekeeping Mission in The Gambia. Chief of Operations, Army Headquarters, Olufemi Akinjobi, a major general, disclosed this on Thursday at the graduation ceremony of Nigerian Company 7 which will soon head for the tiny West African state. The ceremony[Read More…]