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By Efam Dovi
Accra
09 May 2006

Ghana's army says it is ordering an investigation 1 into allegations that its soldiers serving with the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Liberia are involved in a sex-for-aid scandal.

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The allegations were in a report by the group Save the Children. It said Ghanaian soldiers in the peacekeeping mission are among those who demand sex from girls, some as young as eight, in return for aid.

The report said some of the girls have babies fathered by Ghanaian soldiers.

 
Colonel Emmanuel Nibo  
  
A military spokesman, Colonel Emmanuel Nibo, told the VOA the report came as a surprise to Ghana's military.

He said the high command has ordered immediate 2 investigations 3 into the allegations.

"Well the Ghana Armed Forces is rather [surprised] about the report because our troops are quite aware of this particular sexual exploitation and abuse because it is one subject they are [briefed] on before they leave the shores of Ghana for the operations," said Colonel Nibo. "So when the news came most of us were [surprised], so the military high command has directed the contingent 4 commander in Liberia to investigate the allegation as well as the report and submit the report to Accra for them to study and know exactly what is going on."

Colonel Nibo said the army is taking the allegations seriously and would like to establish whether the report is accurate.

"In the first place we need to find out whether the report is right and also find out whether any of the troops, Ghanaian troops, because they were very specific, they said Ghanaian troops, whether any Ghanaian troop [were] involved," he said.

There are about 700 Ghanaian soldiers serving with the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Liberia, and the military command is also worried about their health in the light of the sex allegations.

"We also know that HIV/AIDS is also an issue if you get yourself involved in sex. So in our particular situation if … before you go on a mission and you go for medical examination and you are found positive that is your end, you will never be on any peace mission again so the troops are all aware but in all situations some people are adventurous," added Colonel Nibo.

Colonel Nibo also said its personnel are very much aware of the military regulations and should any of them be implicated 5 they will face the law.



n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查,但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
adj.视条件而定的;n.一组,代表团,分遣队
  • The contingent marched in the direction of the Western Hills.队伍朝西山的方向前进。
  • Whether or not we arrive on time is contingent on the weather.我们是否按时到达要视天气情况而定。
adj.密切关联的;牵涉其中的
  • These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence. 这些组织与这起暴力事件有着极大的关联。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Having the stolen goods in his possession implicated him in the robbery. 因藏有赃物使他涉有偷盗的嫌疑。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
2-CHLOROBENZYLAMINE
abandonate
allowable impact load
amphibianlike
barbey
barbier
benzisoxazoles
better-tasting
BKdusty pink
booking commission
bruderrat
butt joint welder
cardiac ventricle
caribbean subregion
catarrhal dyspepsia
christenly
circular flow of economy
class lists
clientela
contracted domain
Corypha
cronak method
cryptophialoidea secunda
deed registration fee
deflowereth
delay in payment
diogenes tumidus
dipping structure
dissidently
eastermost
endoscopic cold light source
ethynylbenzyl carbamate
eutelolecithal
exergonic
false-zero test
five-channel scanning radiometer
frost hygrometer
fug us
gel swelling
gingival border
hoale
i-deled
ice-shelves
icodextrin
incremental speed governing droop
insaner
internal spermatic veins
Ipililo
Johnstonebridge
joint operating procedure
ketoic
legal argument
life-holy
liquid scintillator detector
list-directed input/output statement
litmouse
Luconge
lynch-pins
mellow-soil plow
mentorlike
MEV, MeV, Mev, mev
myelomeningitis
Napicladium asteroma
nebularia contracta
neutron superfluidity
Nittendorf
ole-db
palpebral edema of the newborn
Penguin Beach
percentage of twist shrinkage
petrolisthes obtusifrons
primary cutaneous cryptococcosis
pronounces
propulsion parameter
Prügy
radioactive cemetery
radiomuscular
refollows
registry offices
relay return spring
roll-off area
RTTIs
sampling apparatus scattering area
so also do
space mark
spring swench
steinwachs
stokes' law of settling
tactical command ship
tangent-cone method
target domain
taxi pattern
thiosemicarbazone isonicotinaldehyde
track servo mechanism
trash boom
triaster egg
triple-digit
upright engine
video envelope
wash place
wideband coating
XIPHOSTOMIDAE