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Home > Somalia: Pressing ahead with a controversial peace keeping mission

Contributor [1]
Monday, September 11, 2006 - 03:00
Categories: 
Conflict & emergencies [2]
Issue Number: 
269 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Is it, as one cabinet minister has claimed, a "welcome" troop deployment? Or is an analyst's description of the force as "suicidal" more accurate? These questions are doubtless occupying the minds of a good many politicians and observers in East Africa, after the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) agreed on plans to send peace keeping troops to Somalia.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/conflict/36886 [5]
Country: 
Somalia [6]

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