West Africa: ECOWAS to Support Education in Africa

3 October 2012

The Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa'I, has called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to support efforts to improve education in Africa.

The Minister stated this at the opening of a week-long Conference of ECOWAS Ministers of Education in Abuja that it was the desire of the Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union (COMEDEF V) that education receives a boost in line with the AU Second Decade of Education Action Plan, 2006-2015.

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