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Rachel Savage

Candidates to lead Commonwealth urge reparations for slavery and colonialism

Mamadou Tangara
Mamadou Tangara, the foreign minister of the Gambia, said he fully supported reparative justice and that the Commonwealth could make it happen. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The three candidates to be the next secretary general of the Commonwealth have called for reparations for countries that were affected by slavery and colonisation.

The candidates from the Gambia, Ghana and Lesotho expressed their support for either financial reparations or “reparative justice”, as they made their pitches to lead the 56-country organisation at a debate hosted by the Chatham House thinktank in London on Wednesday.

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