English to Portuguese Bus/Financial Government / Politics Regional development

Estou a traduzir um artigo económico sobre os países da Africa subsariana. Alude-se aqui ao "fenómeno", frequente nos países africanos, de os mesmos militares integrarem as forças nacionais e, posteriormente, as forças da ONU. Pensei em "metamorfose" ou "trespasse"; não me convém, por motivos óbvios (ver texto) usar os termos "conversão" ou "transferência"...

It is also remarkable that ECOWAS peacekeepers almost in all cases laid the foundation for UN peace operations and also facilitated them through cooperative peacekeeping otherwise known as co-deployment and “rehatting of troops” (i.e. conversion or transfer of ECOWAS peacekeepers to UN peacekeepers). Co-deployment and rehatting of troops between ECOWAS and the UN have been witnessed in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire.

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United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) was deployed to replace ECOMIL a few months later and, in line with the emerging trend of regional and international synergy in peacekeeping, ECOMIL “rehatted” or converted to UNMIL.