Editing Ghana Armed Forces (section)

===Peacekeeping Operations===
[[File:UN Peacekeepers Kigali.jpg|thumb|300px|Peacekeepers from Ghana Army (GA) in [[Kigali]], [[Rwanda]] in a [[Volkswagen Iltis]].]]
The Armed Forces are heavily committed to international [[peacekeeping]] operations. Ghana prefers to send its troops to operations in Africa. However the [[United Nations]] has used Ghanaian forces in countries as diverse as [[Afghanistan]], [[Iraq]], [[Kosovo]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Nepal]], [[Cambodia]] and [[Lebanon]].<ref name="Ghana's Regional Security Policy">{{cite web |url=http://www.kaiptc.org/Publications/Occasional-Papers/Documents/no_20.aspx |title=Ghana's Regional Security Policy: Costs, Benefits and Consistency |page=33 |format=PDF |access-date=2014-04-27 |work=Kaiptc.org |publisher=[[Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508150900/http://www.kaiptc.org/Publications/Occasional-Papers/Documents/no_20.aspx |archive-date=2014-05-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Currently, Ghanaian armed forces are posted to United Nations peacekeeping missions in:<ref name="Ghana Armed Forces − Peace operations">{{cite web |url=http://www.geneva-academy.ch/RULAC/peace_operations.php?id_state=71 |title=Ghana Armed Forces − Peace operations|access-date=2014-04-27|work=RULAC |publisher=Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project}}</ref>
* [[MONUC]] ([[Democratic Republic of Congo]]) − 464
* [[UNMIL]] ([[Liberia]]) − 852 (disestablished 2018)
* [[UNAMSIL]] ([[Sierra Leone]]) − 782
* [[UNIFIL]] ([[Lebanon]]) − 651

Ghana armed forces provided the first Force Commander of the [[Economic Community of West African States]] Monitoring Group ([[ECOMOG]]), Lieutenant General [[Arnold Quainoo]]. Quainoo led the force from July 1990 to September 1990.<ref>{{cite book |title=Peacekeeping In Africa : Capabilities And Culpabilities  |last=Berman, Eric G. |author2=Sams, Katie E. |year=2000 |publisher=[[United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research]] |location=Geneva |isbn=92-9045-133-5 |pages=94–95}}
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Ghana Armed Forces peacekeepers have many roles: [[patrolling]], as [[military police]], [[Election observers|electoral observers]], [[Demining|de-miners]] ([[Bomb disposal|bomb disposal units]] and [[clearance diver]]s), [[ceasefire]] monitors, [[humanitarian aid]] workers, and even [[special forces]] or [[frogmen]] against [[insurgent]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=32&Itemid=118 |title=International Peacekeeping |access-date=2014-04-25 |work=Gaf.mil.gh |publisher=Ghana Armed Forces |archive-date=2013-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704113503/http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=32&Itemid=118 |url-status=dead }}</ref>