Cameroonian police for Darfur peacekeeping mission

YAOUNDE, Cameroon, Apr 8, 2005 (PANA) — Forty-nine Cameroonian police officers left
here Friday for Darfur, western Sudan, to join the African Union (AU)
peacekeeping force in the troubled East African nation.

Top government officials, police authorities and family members attended
an official send-off ceremony organised at the Police Academy here.

Police authorities said the Cameroonian officers were fluent speakers of
French and English.

They constitute the sixth contingent of Cameroonian police to participate
in UN and AU peacekeeping missions.

Cameroonian cops have taken up missions in Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Haiti,
Kosovo and DR Congo.