A three-day training workshop on capacity development for
emergency and humanitarian response, organised by the Economic Community of
West African States ECOWAS in collaboration with UNHCR, opened yesterday at the
Jerma Beach Hotel in Kololi.
Speaking on the opening ceremony, Dr Guye Abdou, Early
Warning System Manager ECOWAS, said that in the last few years conflict
prevention has become a corner stone for a sustainable peace building in
Major Lamin Jammeh, of The Gambia Armed Forces, welcomed the participants to The Gambia and described the workshop as timely.
Mrs. Naffie Barry, Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Department of State for Trade, Industry and Employment who declared the forum open encouraged the participants to take the workshop seriously.
The ceremony was chaired by Mr.Moussa Dabal Head of Mission.
