Tag Archives: ECOWAS

Dans un communiqué publié par ECOWAS, il est annoncé une grande rencontre entre les ministres en charge des Hydrocarbures dans differents pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Les termes, objectifs et attentes de cette grande rencontre sont notifiés dans cette note dont nous vous proposons lecture. « Les ministres en charge des Hydrocarbures …

The Economic Community of West African States celebrates its 40 years of existence. The sub-regional organization was created on 28th May 1975 with the signature of the treaty of Lagos that aims at promoting cooperation between countries of West Africa. At the time of its creation, the member countries of …

The 47th summit of the heads of State and government of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) held on Tuesday in Accra (Ghana) was an unsuccessful meeting to limit the presidential terms to two in this region. According to BBC Africa, Togo and Gambia rejected the proposal of …

The Ghanaian president, John Dramani Mahama, also the serving chairman of the ECOWAS, expressed on Monday, 23rd March 2015, his wish to see elections taking place in peace in Nigeria. He made this declaration at the end of a meeting with all the stakeholders in these elections, namely the outgoing …

The Economic Community of West African States announces that 150 agents will be trained for the fight against Ebola virus in the three main countries affected by the disease: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The regional organization declared in a communiqué that « health workers from six member countries of ECOWAS …

West-African employers have been meeting since Tuesday in Abidjan during an Ordinary General Assembly (AGO) for the Federation of employers’ organizations of West Africa (FOPAO). According to Jean Kacou Diagou, chairman of FOPAO, this session, punctuated with communications, will allow West-African employers to get informed and acquainted on the questions …

The presidents of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé and Ghana, John Dramani Mahama inaugurated on Monday the juxtaposed checkpoint of Noépé on the border between both countries. Also present at the ceremony, Désiré Kadré Ouédraogo, chairman of the ECOWAS Commission. The building of this post indeed joins the logic of integration wished …

End of the ECOWAS 45th summit last Friday in Accra, Ghana. Almost all of the Heads of State got back to their various countries after two days of works. The first to have arrived in Accra, the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, was the first to get back to his country …

  The major general, Delali Johnson Sakyi has just been appointed by the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, as army chief observer of the United Nations Military observer Group in India and in Pakistan (UNMOGIP). Of Ghanaian origin, the general Sakyi has so succeeded to the major general Young-Bum Choi of …

The Senegalese writer Cheik Hamidou Kane, the author of the famous book « Ambiguous Adventure », interviewed by the site Africultures on the fringe of the last book and book fair held in Geneva (from 30th April to 4th May 2014) evoked the future Africa that has to pass by a federation …

ECOWAS Center of Gender Development (CCDG) based in Dakar, granted scholarships of excellence to 17 Senegalese girls. The institution which makes equality of opportunity between Man and Woman a major concern, intends to encourage feminine gender to be interested in scientific domains. Comings from region of Dakar, Thiès and Diourbel, …

The International fair of energy, mines and quarries (SEMICA) will take place in Ouagadougou from 29th to 31st May 2014. Under the theme « Contribution of mining sector to the emergence of ECOWAS States: Current situation and perspectives », the meeting will welcome about fifty heads of States and governments and experts …

Officially since this Saturday 26th March 2014, Ghanaian president, John Dramani Mahama, 55 years old, was elected at the head of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) during the 44th ordinary summit of the ECOWAS in Yamoussoukro. He succeeds to his Ivory Coast homologue, Alassane Ouattara. The outgoing …