Bsallion strength Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bsallion-strength/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bsallion strength Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bsallion-strength/ 32 32 SADC to send contingency force to Lesotho https://jjcornish.com/2017/11/sadc-send-contingency-force-lesotho/ Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/11/sadc-send-contingency-force-lesotho/ Lesotho’s baulked at the size of the proposed regional force to help keep peace in the region. Defence sources in Maseru says its less than a quarter of what they were led to expect. SADC leaders are meeting next Sunday to put the seal of authority on the contingency force they’ll be sending to Lesotho. […]

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]]> Lesotho’s baulked at the size of the proposed regional force to help keep peace in the region.

Defence sources in Maseru says its less than a quarter of what they were led to expect.

SADC leaders are meeting next Sunday to put the seal of authority on the contingency force they’ll be sending to Lesotho.

The figure of 250 has emerged from a meeting of security chiefs at SADC headquarters in Gaborone.

This will comprise soldiers, police, intelligence operatives and civilian support staff.

Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe will provide them.

Indications are this the most SADC can afford.

Military sources in Lesotho say it’s not big enough to the job.

They were expect a force of battalion strength – that’s about 1 200.

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