DTN News - AFRICA DEFENSE NEWS: Burkina Faso Colonel-Major Barro Gnibanga Appointed Commander Of The ECOWAS Force In Guinea-Bissau
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 28, 2012: Burkina Faso Colonel-Major Barro Gnibanga, appointed commander of the ECOWAS force in Guinea-Bissau, poses for a photograph at the end of an emergency ECOWAS summit held to discuss violence and unrest in Mali and Guinea Bissau, on April 26, 2012, in Abidjan.
The ECOWAS leaders announced that a regional military force would be sent to northern Mali and between 500 and 600 troops to Guinea-Bissau to help 'secure' the transition after the outbreak of political and military crises in the two countries. (Photo - Getty)
