A/HRC/4/41 page 65 Request for a visit 307. Following a decision of the Working Group at the seventy-eighth session, a request for a visit as part of a four-country initiative in Central America was sent to the Government of Nicaragua on 23 May 2006. The Government has not yet replied. Summary of the situation prior to the period under review 308. The majority of the cases reported to the Working Group occurred between 1979 and 1983, in the context of the internal armed conflict which took place during the 1980s. Many of the reports of these disappearances pointed to the involvement of members of the Army, the former Sandinista Government, the former General Directorate for the Security of the State and the Frontier Guard. Two cases reportedly occurred in 1994: one concerned a farmer who was allegedly detained by a group of members of the Army and the police, and the other concerned a person allegedly accused of being a member of the Contras armed group. Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding 309. In the past and during the period under review, the Working Group has transmitted 234 cases to the Government; of those, 19 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the source, 112 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government and 103 cases remain outstanding. Nigeria3 Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 1 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review Cases sent under Cases sent under the standard the urgent action procedure procedure 0 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 1 General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit 3 0 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government Non-governmental sources 0 Multiple replies on some cases N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 1 Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) 1 Government response Government response Government response N/A N/A N/A In accordance with the practice of the Working Group, J. `Bayo Adekanye did not participate in the decisions relating to this section of the report.