AFRICOM: Liberia security is positive

  1. Posted on Saturday 22 November 2008 - 10:00
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    Murtala Mohamed Kamara, AfricaNews reporter in Freetown, Sierra Leone
    A senior military commander attached to the US African Command, AFRICOM, has given a positive view about the security situation in Liberia five years after that country's civil war. Brigadier-General Garrett said she is pleased with gains made so far especially on the ongoing security sector reform.
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    She expressed hope that lessons learnt from the security sector exercise could be applied to other countries “without reinventing the wheels.” She praised Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her performance and urged her to do more.

    On her part, Africa’s only female president Sirleaf said she hopes that the visit of Gen. Garrett will inspire more females to join the Liberian army and expresses her appreciation to the US Department for Defense for reforming the Liberian security sector.

    It could be recalled that after Liberia’s civil war the US went into an agreement with the Liberian government to reform it security sector with much emphasis on the army.

    Liberia was once host to the largest UN peacekeeping mission in the world with more than 17,000 military personnel. Liberia is the only African country that has agreed to provide base for AFRICOM which has its current location in Germany.

    The US Department of Defense said the creation of AFRICOM will better focus and enhance existing US initiative and support the African Union, regional bodies among other things.

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