The president of Chad has called for a quicker deployment of African troops in Mali at a two-day meeting of West African heads of states that started Wednesday in Ivory Coast, with a focus on regional security and terrorism. "Malian military, your place is on the front," Chadian President Idriss Deby said at the opening of the 42nd Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the Ivorian capital, Yamoussoukro. According to dpa, he called on the regional block to accelerate deployment of its troops to the north of Mali to insure it did not fall again to insurgents.
