SA to send troops to Comores

Posted by admin Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:02:00 GMT

Moroni - South Africa will send a 100-member military team to train security forces in the Comores ahead of the June presidential elections in the Muslim-majority archipelago, a poll official said.

"About 100 men working under the aegis of the African Union will arrive in Moroni on April 25 to train and organise the Comores forces," Mohammed Kassim Zahahe from the national independent electoral commission told AFP.

Read more at: Business in Africa Online

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