Nigeria: Jonathan Arrives in Abidjan for Ecowas Meeting

19 January 2013

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday arrived in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital, to participate in the extra-ordinary session of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government.

The session of the regional bloc, scheduled for Jan. 19, was summoned ahead of the full deployment of the community's troops to Mali, following renewed military offensive by Islamists occupying the north of that country.

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