A high-level delegation leaves Ottawa today to begin week-long trip to Africa to study the possibility of a future Canadian peacekeeping mission on the continent.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is accompanied by former UN high commissioner for human rights Louise Arbour and retired general Romeo Dallaire, who commanded a peacekeeping mission during the Rwanda genocide in 1994.
They will visit visit the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
During the 2015 election campaign Justin Trudeau’s Liberals promised to return Canada to peacekeeping.
Sajjan and the chief of defence staff, Gen. Jonathan Vance, both said last month that could involve a mission to Africa.
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