Plans Call For 600 Troops To Deploy For U.N. Missions In Africa
November 14 2016
The Canadian government has committed to a three-year peacekeeping deployment in Africa.
The mission will be reassessed every year to ensure that it has an "enduring" effect, Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said in an interview with the Toronto Star.
The operation will be spread among a number of unspecified African countries, with a major focus on training and increasing the capacity of the host nations as well as other countries' military forces. The deployment will also...
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