Malawi is to deploy about 50 police officers to Sudan's Darfur as part of its contribution to the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission, the country's police chief said on Friday.
"In our efforts on capacity building, 50 police officers are ready for deployment to Darfur in Sudan," Oliver Kumbambe, inspector general of the Malawi police, said in a statement.
The southern African nation, which has 6 500 police officers, has not given details on exactly when it would deploy the police force.
This will be Malawi's largest police contingent on a peacekeeping mission. Twenty-seven Malawi police officers are currently in Liberia and two are in Kosovo. Malawi last year pledged to send 800 troops to Darfur to serve in the peacekeeping force.
Friday, 4 January 2008
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