West Africa"s regional economic body on Sunday called for troops to be sent to Guinea to prevent violence in the wake of an assassination attempt against the military leader earlier this month and a bloody massacre in September, according to AP. Economic Community of West African States chief Mohammed Ibn Chambas said troops are needed to protect civilians and prevent violence from spreading to neighboring countries. He spoke during a Sunday meeting with diplomats from the U.S., the African Union and the European Union, who met to discuss a plan to return Guinea to civilian rule. «Because of the great threats to human rights and uncontrollable violence, I propose that we recommend to our superiors a preventive deployment of a force to protect civilians and give aid, which will contribute to setting up an atmosphere of security for the Guinean population,» he said. «All the ingredients of an explosive situation have come together today in Guinea.» Chambas added that he worried that violence in Guinea would spread to nearby countries like Sierra Leone and Liberia, which are trying to recover from a brutal civil war.
