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ECOWAS committee investigates subregional fighting

    NAIROBI

    An independent committee of the West African economic grouping, ECOWAS, is visiting Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to investigate reasons for the political and security crisis among these countries that constitute the Mano River Union.

    ECOWAS said on Wednesday that its six-member technical committee would identify the damage caused by the border fighting and in three weeks report its findings and recommendations to the chairman of the 16-nation ECOWAS group, President Alpha Omar Konare of Mali.

    The committee, comprising three members each from Mali and Nigeria, is led by Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s special envoy on conflict resolution.

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