AU To Deploy 3,000-Troop West-Africa Sahel Region To Battle Armed Islamists
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – The African Union confirmed Thursday that it expected to send a temporary deployment of 3,000 troops to West Africa’s Sahel region, where regional forces are struggling to respond to a nearly eight-year-old onslaught by armed Islamists. The decision was made at the AU summit earlier this month, Smail Chergui, head…