Troops Promised for Sierra Leone
From Times Wire Reports
West African leaders agreed to send 3,000 troops to Sierra Leone to help U.N. peacekeepers who have suffered rebel attacks and seen their colleagues kidnapped. Although a statement released by the heads of state meeting in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, did not specify how many troops would be sent, officials at the conference said on condition of anonymity that leaders had endorsed a proposal made by regional defense ministers two weeks ago to send 3,000 soldiers, most of them Nigerian.
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