6 RP troops trapped in Ivory Coast fighting
By Mario J. Mallari 04/11/2011The United Nations peace keeping mission, including six members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), is being targeted by loyalists of incumbent Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo as tension continues in the African nation.
AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Eduardo Oban Jr., however, assured the safety of the AFP team currently deployed in the troubled nation as re-ported by Air Force Lt. Col. George Tagle, who is a mem-ber of the UN Peacekeeping Force staff.
“His fellow Filipino UN military observers are safe and out of danger,” Oban said.
Aside from Tagle, other members of the AFP team serving under the UN-Peacekeeping Force staff are Navy Lt. Commander Jorge Vicente Aganan Jr. and Lt. Col. Emilio Felicen..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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