Nigeria Says Sending Troops, Jets To Senegal For Gambia Force
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published January 18, 2017 | 11:05 PM
LAGOS, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Jan, 2017 ) - Nigeria has sent 200 soldiers and air assets including fighter jets to Senegal as part of a regional force to enforce the result of Gambia's contested election, the country's air force said Wednesday.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said it had "today moved a contingent of 200 men and air assets comprising fighter jets, transport aircraft, light utility helicopter as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Dakar from where it is expected to operate into Gambia".
"The deployment is also to forestall hostilities or breakdown of law and order that may result from the current political impasse in The Gambia," it added in a statement.
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