Gambia: Ecowas Sets Up Team On Death of Ghanaians

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Ghanaian Chronicle <http://www.ghanaian-chronicle.com/> (Accra)

19 August 2008
Posted to the web 20 August 2008

A joint UN-ECOWAS fact-finding team has been established to investigate the
death of some Ghanaians found buried in The Gambia three years ago and to
help bring the matter to a peaceful closure.

The team, led by Mr Curtis Ward, an advisor to the UN, includes a
representative each of the governments of Ghana and The Gambia, an ECOWAS
statement said at the weekend.

Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, President of ECOWAS Commission, inaugurated the team
in Abuja. It was witnessed by Mr. Sammy Kum Buo, Director of Africa in the
Department of Political Affairs at the UN, as well as Ghanaian and Gambian
officials.

The team, to be supported by experts, will be based at the Headquarters of
the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja. Mr. Ward is expected to visit The Gambia and
Ghana shortly for preliminary discussions with government officials.

The team was established at the request of the two Governments, "to bring
peaceful closure to this matter, consistent with the principles of justice
and respect for human rights and human dignity," the statement said.
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The final resolution of the matter will also help to restore and strengthen
the traditionally cordial relations between the two countries, it added.

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