{"id":463519,"date":"2011-07-18T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/18\/mercenaries-threaten-ivorian-liberian-border-say-leaders\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T13:01:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:01:30","slug":"mercenaries-threaten-ivorian-liberian-border-say-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/18\/mercenaries-threaten-ivorian-liberian-border-say-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercenaries Threaten Ivorian-Liberian Border, Say Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"37.0446735395\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rnw180.png\" alt=\"Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" title=\"Visit Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>18 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>West Africa leaders have requested the military assistance of the UN and ECOWAS, the regional political union, to improve monitoring of the Liberia-Ivory Coast border, which they say has been breached by mercenaries operating in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The call came after talks between Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and leaders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries that make up the so-called Mano River Union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have asked ECOWAS and UN to help us monitor the borders and to provide a helicopter, a combat helicopter for the various areas in the forest,&#8221; Ouattara told reporters after talks in the Liberian capital Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liberian mercenaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a joint communique, the four leaders said insecurity on the porous Liberian-Ivory Coast represented a threat for the entire West African region.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations said in May it was concerned by the return to Liberia of mercenaries and had reinforced its local forces to patrol the long 700 km (400 mile) border between the two countries, which is mostly dense rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>Liberian mercenaries were allegedly hired by supporters of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo during the four-month post-election conflict which ended with Gbagbo&#8217;s capture and arrest in April.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"27.1186440678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/csi\/00171680_2c57614ede7eea646f5e9b4562bb025f\/w260x.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emansion.gov.lr\/\">Liberia Government<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ivorian President Alhassan Ouattara arrives in Liberia for a summit of the Mano River Union states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liberia is recovering from 14 years of intermittent civil war itself and plans to hold a constitutional referendum and presidential elections by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cache of arms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last month it said it had seized a cache of arms and ammunitions including assault rifles and rocket launchers in a town near its border with Ivory Coast. It said it was investigating 92 people after the haul.<\/p>\n<p>Several thousand Ivorian refugees remain on the Liberian side of the border. Some say they are too scared to return homes in western Ivory Coast, which saw an outbreak of inter-ethnic violence as rebel troops loyal to Ouattara advanced from their northern stronghold on the main city Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"c|main|main|id|0D81ErDSewui99tb\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107181360.html\" title=\"Mercenaries Threaten Ivorian-Liberian Border, Say Leaders\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercenaries Threaten Ivorian-Liberian Border, Say Leaders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 18 July 2011 West Africa leaders have requested the military assistance of the UN and ECOWAS, the regional political union, to improve monitoring of the Liberia-Ivory Coast border, which they say has been breached by mercenaries operating in the area. The call came after talks between Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and leaders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries that make up the so-called Mano River Union. &#8220;We have asked ECOWAS and UN to help us monitor the borders and to provide a helicopter, a combat helicopter for the various areas in the forest,&#8221; Ouattara told reporters after talks in the Liberian capital Monrovia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mercenaries Threaten Ivorian-Liberian Border, Say Leaders - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/18\/mercenaries-threaten-ivorian-liberian-border-say-leaders\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mercenaries Threaten Ivorian-Liberian Border, Say Leaders - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"18 July 2011 West Africa leaders have requested the military assistance of the UN and ECOWAS, the regional political union, to improve monitoring of the Liberia-Ivory Coast border, which they say has been breached by mercenaries operating in the area. 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