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ECOMOG is a West African multilateral armed force established by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The name is an abbreviation of the ECOWAS Monitoring Group. ECOMOG is not a standing army, but a formal arrangement for separate armies to work together, along similar lines to NATO. Its backbone is Nigerian armed forces and financial resources, with sub-battalion strength units contributed by other ECOWAS members - Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Gambia. West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and...
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History Nigeria, Ghana and other ECOWAS members agreed a Protocol on Mutual Defence Assistance, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 29 May 1989. Among other security measures, this was to create an Allied Armed Force of the Community (AAFC) as needed.
Anglophone ECOWAS members established ECOMOG in 1990 to intervene in the civil war in Liberia (1989-1996). Western nations had declined to intervene, and the Francophone ECOWAS members were opposed to mobilising the AAFC under the previous year's protocol. Unlike the typical UN mission of its day, ECOMOG's first deployment entailed fighting its way into a many-sided civil war, in an attempt to forcibly hold the warring factions apart. An anglophone is someone who speaks English natively or by adoption. ...
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ECOMOG has since acted to control conflict in other cases:
The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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Wider influence Within Africa, ECOMOG represents the first credible attempt at a regional security initiative since the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) tried to established an 'Inter-African Force' to intervene in Chad in 1981. As such it is closely followed by other African states, which recognize the potential social and economic benefits of locally-guaranteed regional stability. Flag of the Organisation of African Unity, later also used by the African Union. ...
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References - Mitikishe Maxwell Khobe, The Evolution and Conduct of ECOMOG Operations in West Africa, in Monograph No.44, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa [1] (http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No44/ECOMOG.html)
- BBC News Online - Profile: ECOMOG [2] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/2364029.stm)
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