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Gambia News : Gambian troops leave for ECOWAS training in Burkina Faso

Jun 05,2009 by

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gambia Members of Gambia's component of the ECOWAS logistic sta ndby force, led by Maj. Ousman Gomez, left Banjul Tuesday for Burkina Faso, via Senegal, to participate in the 10-day field training exercise as part of efforts towards establishing an ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF).

A Gambian military official, Lt. Omar Bojang, told PANA here that the 129-strong contingent, including six officers, would join their colleagues from other ECOWAS member states for the exercise.

The US$3 million exercise is to be held in Burkina Faso for an estimated 1,250 troops representing all 15 ECOWAS member countries.

It is aimed at testing the "logistic concept and standard operating procedure of the Standby Force.

"This exercise will help the commanders to address the logistic problems identified in earlier missions, while also encouraging inter-operability among the various contingents that make up the ESF," an ECOWAS spokesman, Sunny Ugoh, told PANA.

Efforts to improve logistics have also been boosted with the handover of a facility and some US$50 million in equipment in Freetown from the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), which ended its five-year mission in 2005.

The ESF is due to become operational by 2010, in line with time-lines set by the African Union for regional standby forces.

The training exercise in Burkina Faso will mark the second time the Gambian contingent will be participating in such a regional training for the ESF, after the one held in Thiase, Senegal, in 2007.

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