June 21, 2013
West Africa: ECOWAS Traditional Wrestling Tournament to Hold in Dakar
Defending champion Senegal will seek to extend its dominance of the regional wrestling scene and retain its title during the sixth edition of the annual ECOWAS Wrestling tournament… Read more »
June 11, 2013
West Africa: Team Senegal Wins ECOWAS Wrestling Tournament
Senegal dethroned defending champions Niger at the 9th edition of the ECOWAS Community Traditional Wrestling Tournament which ended in Niamey on Saturday 8th June, 2013. Read more »
April 08, 2013
West Africa: ECOWAS, UN Partners Review Regional Peace Support Projects
An ECOWAS delegation and officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and UNESCO have ended a three-day meeting in Dakar, Senegal for the review of the regional… Read more »
September 17, 2012
West Africa: ECOWAS Code of Conduct On Humanitarian Action in the Pipeline
ECOWAS is in the process of designing a rights-based Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Action (ECCHA) for civilian humanitarian actors, the Director of Humanitarian and Social… Read more »
July 14, 2012
West Africa: Senegal Dominates 5th Ecowas Wrestling Tournament
Defending champions and host Senegal lived up to pre-tournament billing by winning five of the six gold medals at stake at the 5th ECOWAS African Wresting competition which ended… Read more »
July 13, 2012
West Africa: 5th Ecowas Wrestling Tournament Opens in Dakar
The Iba Mar Diop Stadium Dakar came agog on Thursday, 12th July 2012 with wrestlers from 13 of the 15 ECOWAS Member States hitting the sandy arena as the 5th ECOWAS African… Read more »
July 10, 2012
West Africa: Dakar Hosts 5th Ecowas Wrestling Tournament
The 5th ECOWAS African Wrestling Tournament taking place in Dakar, Senegal from 12th to 14th July, 2012, will feature wrestlers from 13 of the 15 ECOWAS Member States in five… Read more »
May 04, 2012
West Africa: ECOWAS Leaders Agree New Measures to Restore Peace to Guinea Bissau, Mali
ECOWAS leaders have threatened to reinstate targeted sanctions against those who disrupt the process for the election of a new president in Mali to replace President Amadou Toumani… Read more »
April 09, 2012
West Africa: Statement By H. E. Alassane Ouattara, Chairman of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government On the Positive Development of the Political Situation in Mali
Following the coup d'état perpetrated by Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo on 22 March 2012 against the democratically elected President of Mali, H.E. Amadou Toumani Touré,… Read more »
March 24, 2012
West Africa: ECOWAS Calls On Senegalese to Seek Peaceful Re-Run Presidential Election
The Head of the ECOWAS Observation Mission, His Excellency Koffi Sama, has reiterated his call on the people of Senegal to ensure that the run-off presidential election "unfolds in… Read more »
March 20, 2012
West Africa: ECOWAS Observation Mission Returns to Senegal
The ECOWAS Observation Mission to the 25th March 2012 second round presidential elections in Senegal arrives the country on 20th March 2012. Read more »
February 21, 2012
West Africa: Koffi Sama, Former Togolese PM Joins ECOWAS-AU Joint Mission to Senegal
The ECOWAS Commission has appointed former Togolese Prime Minister, His Excellency Koffi Sama, as a member of the Joint African Union-ECOWAS High- Level Mission to Senegal. Read more »
West Africa: ECOWAS Sends 150 Election Observers to Senegal
ECOWAS has deployed 150 observers for the 26th February 2012 presidential election in Senegal. The Election Observation Mission, headed by former Prime Minister of Togo, His… Read more »
February 19, 2012
West Africa: General Obasanjo to Lead Joint AU-Ecowas Mission to Senegal
The 40th Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has endorsed the dispatch of a Joint African Union-ECOWAS High- Level Mission to be led by… Read more »
January 27, 2012
West Africa: ECOWAS Press Release On the Forthcoming Presidentiel Election in the Republic of Senegal
The ECOWAS Commission has followed closely in recent weeks developments in the political party campaigns leading to the forthcoming Presidential Elections in the Republic of… Read more »
October 03, 2011
West Africa: ECOWAS Chiefs of Defence Staff Meet in Abuja
A two-day meeting of the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) opens in Abuja on 4th October 2011 to consider the recommendations of an extraordinary meeting of the… Read more »
September 09, 2011
West Africa: A Mini-Summit On the Security Situation Between Liberia and RCI (ECOWAS)
A mini-summit of five (05) Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be held on Saturday, 10 September 2011 in Abuja, Nigeria. Read more »
June 06, 2011
West Africa: Monitoring of the ECOWAS Mining Directive
The Ad hoc committee monitoring the implementation of the regional mining directive on Thursday, 26th May 2011 has constituted three committees that will visit Member States to… Read more »
June 07, 2011
West Africa: 4th Edition of ECOWAS Traditional Wrestling Competition Opens 9th June in Dakar
The 4th Edition of the ECOWAS Traditional Wresting Tournament opens on Thursday 9th June in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, with 65 wrestlers from 13 of the 15 Member States… Read more »
May 23, 2011
West Africa: 4th Meeting of RIP Steering Committee in Dakar
The steering committee for the Regional Indicative Programme under the 9th European Development Fund (EDF) has called for a transition programme to take care of the period between… Read more »
February 23, 2011
West Africa: Over 130 Economists of the Region Trained in Dakar to Use the T21 Model
More than 130 economists were trained on the tools for prioritization, modeling and planning during a 12-day workshop which opened on 7 February 2011 in Dakar (Senegal). Read more »
November 15, 2010
West Africa: Miss Ghana's Shirley Nwangere Becomes New Miss Ecowas Peace Ambassador
Ghana's Miss Shirley Nwangere has won the 2010 Miss ECOWAS Peace Pageant, defeating 27 other hopeful contestants at a glittering ceremony in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.… Read more »
May 17, 2010
West Africa: Providing the Ecowas Region With Adequate Instruments for the Promotion And Development of Harmonious Sports
"This policy is a set of coherent measures coupled with diverse, organised and planned activities, both in time and space, for the development of sports and promotion of youths in… Read more »
May 13, 2010
West Africa: Turning Sports Into an Instrument for Human Development And Integration Within the Ecowas Region
"Sports or sports activities should not in any way be sources of troubles leading to the violence seen in the stadia but instead important instruments for social life, sources of… Read more »
May 06, 2010
West Africa: Ecowas Commission Reassures Journalists
The ECOWAS Commission has assured the West African Journalists Association (WAJA) of its commitment to continue their collaboration in furthering the interest of the profession as… Read more »