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- 1 2 Adekeye Adebajo; Ismail O. D. Rashid; Ismail Rashid (2004). West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 326. ISBN 978-1-58826-284-4.
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