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尼日利亚军队将奔赴马里

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Close to 200 Nigerian troops are due to arrive in Mali to help fight Islamist insurgents¹ in the country's north.

一只接近200人的尼日利亚军队将抵达马里，帮助对抗北部的伊斯兰教叛乱分子。

It is the first West African contingent² to join France's anti-rebel operation launched in Mali on Friday.

In total, 3,300 regional troops will be deployed³ in the conflict under a UN Security Council resolution. Chad has confirmed it will send 2,000 troops.

Meanwhile French and Malian forces have started the first major ground operation against the militants⁴.

Sources say street battles broke out between soldiers and rebels in the town of Diabaly, 350km north of the capital Bamako on Wednesday.

Islamists entered Diabaly on Monday, taking the town from Malian forces. French fighter jets have since attacked the rebel position.

Limited support

A company of 190 Nigerian soldiers will be flown from the northern city of Kaduna into Mali on Thursday, the BBC's Will Ross in Kaduna reports.

Nigeria will lead the West African regional force. It has promised to send a total of 900 troops as well as fighter jets.

Chad has also confirmed 2,000 soldiers will join the anti-rebel operation in Mali.

"We intend to send an infantry⁵ regiment⁶（团，大量） and two support battalions（军营，军队）," Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat told Radio France Internationale.

Benin, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Togo have also pledged to take part.

France intervened in Mali last Friday to try to halt the Islamists' push southwards towards the capital.

It has some 800 troops on the ground in Mali and defence sources said their numbers were expected to increase to 2,500.

However, France has been pushing hard for the deployment⁷ of a West African regional force.

The arrival of the first Nigerian troops should bring some relief to French soldiers who are only getting limited support from the fairly weak Malian army, our correspondent says.

It is not yet known exactly what role the West African troops will play or how well prepared they are for what is likely to be a very challenging ground assault（攻击，袭击） against the Islamist militants, he adds.

The UK has provided transport planes, and on Wednesday Germany gave two transport planes as logistical（后勤的） support.

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1 insurgents
n.起义，暴动，造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。来自《简明英汉词典》 Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。来自互联网

2 contingent
adj.视条件而定的；n.一组，代表团，分遣队
参考例句：
The contingent marched in the direction of the Western Hills.队伍朝西山的方向前进。 Whether or not we arrive on time is contingent on the weather.我们是否按时到达要视天气情况而定。

3 deployed
（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )；施展；部署；有效地利用
参考例句：
Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。 The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

4 militants
激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。 Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

5 infantry
n.[总称]步兵(部队)
参考例句：
The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。 We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。

6 regiment
n.团，多数，管理；v.组织，编成团，统制
参考例句：
As he hated army life,he decide to desert his regiment.因为他嫌恶军队生活，所以他决心背弃自己所在的那个团。 They reformed a division into a regiment.他们将一个师整编成为一个团。

7 deployment
n. 部署,展开
参考例句：
He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。 Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

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