Obituary: MFWA loses staff member

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) announces with sadness the death of our colleague, Mr. Winfred Nii Boye, Programmes Officer, Monitoring, Research and Publications Department,  who died on February 14, 2010 while on admission at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, Ghana, following  a motor accident on the Accra-Tema Motorway.
He will be deeply missed by MFWA and the entire civil society community in Ghana, where he had been very active in the last year.
Funeral arrangements for Mr. Nii Boye will be announced later. Issued by the MFWA, Accra, February 15, 2010 The MFWA is a regional independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Accra. It was founded in 1997 to defend and promote the rights and freedom of the media and all forms of expression.

For more information please contact:

Kwame Karikari (Prof)
Executive Director
MFWA
Accra
Tel: 233-21-24 24 70
Fax: 233-21-22 10 84
Email: mfwa@africaonline.com.gh
Website: www.mediafound.org