Tag: Ecowas

News, Security

ECOWAS organizes a training workshop on security and governance reform in collaboration with the EU, German Cooperation and the African Security Sector Network

PRESS RELEASE: Monrovia, Liberia, August 9, 2022 ECOWAS, in collaboration with the European Union, German Cooperation and the African Security Sector Network, is organizing a training workshop on security and governance reform. The training, scheduled from August 9 to 12, 2022 in Monrovia, Liberia, aims to build the capacities of […]

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ECOWAS Election Observers meet Thiendella Fall, others as Senegal warms up for Sunday’s Parliamentary Elections

A delegation of ECOWAS Election Observers are meeting with Police Commissioner Tanor Thiendella Fall, Director General of Elections (Directeur général des élections), and other stakeholders in the Senegalese capital Dakar, ahead of Sunday’s (31st July) Parliamentary Polls. According to Ecowas, its delegation is headed by S. E Kadré Désiré OUEDRAOGO. […]

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West Africa bloc lifts sanctions on Mali, Burkina Faso

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) accept transition promises of both African countries and lift economic and financial sanctions on them, but reject a three-year transition proposed by coup leaders in Guinea. West African leaders have lifted sanctions on Mali’s military regime, accepting a March 2024 […]

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Guinea Bissau President Is New Ecowas Chairman

President Umaro Cissokho Embalo of Guinea Bissau has been elected as the new Chairman of Ecowas for the next one year. President Embalo succeeded Ghana’s president Nana Akuffo Addo, who held the position for two years. He was elected at the 61st Ordinary session and summit of the Ecowas leaders […]