61.  To restore security in Burundi, the coalition government last month asked that an African peacekeeping force be sent to Burundi.

62.  Troops from seven West African countries, including Nigeria, will take part in military maneuvers in April aimed at creating a new African peacekeeping force, officials said.

63.  U.S. soldiers train embryo of what they hope will become African peacekeeping force.

64.  U.N. mediators and soldiers from an African peacekeeping force who had accompanied the delegations to the talks ducked for cover as the shooting began.

65.  U.S. official promotes African peacekeeping force.

66.  Under the proposal, the United States and other donor nations would provide financing and training for an African force for use in man-made and natural disasters.

67.  Fighters loyal to warlord Charles Taylor have been infiltrating outlying areas of the Liberian capital, the African multinational peacekeeping force ECOMOG has claimed.

68.  For its part, ECOWAS, which has financed an African peacekeeping force in Liberia for nearly five years, has repeatedly threatened to pull out.

69.  Foreign journalists said they were trying to contact the US embassy, the European Union and the African peacekeeping force known as ECOMOG to try to evacuate Grousset.

70.  Ghana has previously threatened to withdraw its contingent from the African peacekeeping force ECOMOG if it can see no firm prospect of a negotiated peace in Liberia.