West Africa: ECOWAS, Cote d'Ivoire Agree Post-Conflict Reconstruction Support

The ECOWAS Commission is to send a team of experts to Cote d'Ivoire in October to assist the country in working out details of projects to be funded by China under the framework of… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Proposes Road Map for Resolution of Post-Conflict in RCI

The ECOWAS Commission has proposed a road map to address the post-conflict challenges faced by Cote d'Ivoire, which includes restoration of peace and security, repatriation of… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Team in Cote d'Ivoire for Post-Conflict Reconstruction Talks

A high-level ECOWAS delegation led by the President of the Commission, Ambassador James Victor Gbeho, arrived in Abidjan on Monday, 22nd August 2011 for talks with officials of the… Read more »

West Africa: Immigration Operatives Work for a Borderless ECOWAS Region

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency James Victor Gbeho on Monday, 22nd August 2011, called on immigration operatives in Member States to work toward the… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS, FAO Meeting to Adress Food Security in West Africa

The ECOWAS Commission and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have scheduled a consultative meeting at the Commission's Secretariat in Abuja from 8th to 9th… Read more »

West Africa: Workshop On ECOWAS for Nigerian Immigration Operatives

Thirty operatives of Nigeria's Immigration Service are to benefit from a week- long training programme which opens on Monday, 22nd August 2011 in Abuja, designed to improve their… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Urges Member States to Pay Up Community Levy

The ECOWAS Council of Ministers has appealed to Member States to pay up their outstanding Community levy before the next summit of Heads of State and Government to enable the… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Advises Cape Verdeans On Run-Off Presidential Election

The Head of the ECOWAS Observer Mission to the run off presidential elections in Cape Verde, Dr. David Adenze Kangah, has called on Cape Verdeans to sustain their "peaceful and… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Countries Urged to Fully Implement the Free Movement Protocol

The Chairman of ECOWAS Council of Ministers and Nigeria's Foreign Minister, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, on Wednesday, 17th August 2011 in Abuja, called on Member States to fully… Read more »

West Africa: Sixty-Sixth Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers Holds in Abuja

The Sixty-sixth Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers opens at the Commission's Secretariat Abuja on Wednesday 17th August 2011. High on the agenda of the two-day… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Congratulates West African Youth On World Youth Day

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency James Victor Gbeho, has congratulated the youth of West Africa for their contribution to the development of the region. Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Reaffirms Commitment to Democracy

The Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS and President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has warned that the region will never allow… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Observers to Return to Cape Verde for Rerun Presidential Election

A 75-member ECOWAS Observer Mission will return to Cape Verde for the second round of the country's presidential elections. The observers are expected to be deployed in all the… Read more »

West Africa: President Jonathan to Grace the Inaugural Session of Third Legislature of ECOWAS Parliament

The Inaugural Session of the Third Legislature of the ECOWAS Parliament opens on Thursday 11th August 2011 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, with the Chairman of the… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Urges Cape Verdeans to Maintain Enviable Political Culture

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency James Victor Gbeho, has called on the Government and people of Cape Verde to uphold their enviable culture of political… Read more »

West Africa: Major Boost to West Africa Cross-Border Transport, Trade (ECOWAS)

The ECOWAS and UEMOA Commissions, in collaboration with the Governments of Ghana and Togo, the World Bank's Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Organization (ALCO), the USAID West Africa Trade… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Deploys 80 Observers to Presidential Election in Cape Verde

An 80-member ECOWAS Observer Mission has been deployed for the 7th August 2011 presidential elections in Cape Verde. Mr. David Adenze Kangah, the Deputy Chairman of Ghana's… Read more »

West Africa: Forum Advocates Regional Policies On Trado-Medicine (ECOWAS)

A forum of forestry experts has called on the ECOWAS Commission to support Member States in the formulation of policies on traditional medicines and the development of a regional… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Countries Urged to Harmonize Educational Programmes, Qualifications

ECOWAS Member States have been urged to harmonize the programmes and qualifications of their tertiary education systems as a major step towards regional integration and human… Read more »

West Africa: USAID, Partners Boost ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme

Two pilot Border Information Centres, an initiative by the USAID West Africa Trade Hub, will be launched on Thursday, 4th August 2011 in Aflao (Ghana) and Kodzoviakopé… Read more »

West Africa: President Victor Gbeho Declares War Against Malaria (ECOWAS)

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. James Victor Gbeho on Wednesday, 27th July 2011 called for a continent-wide war against malaria, to stop the mosquito-borne disease… Read more »

West Africa: Programme Managers Meet in Accra On Malaria Elimination Campaign in ECOWAS Region

Malaria Programme Managers, representatives of the West African Network for Vector Control (entomologists) and other regional actors are to meet in Accra, Ghana 27-29 July 2011 as… Read more »

West Africa: Experts to Validate Report of Study On Equivalence of Certificates in ECOWAS Region

A technical group of experts will meet in Lome, Togo, from 3rd to 6th August 2011 to validate the report of a feasibility study on the Equivalence of Certificates in West Africa.… Read more »

West Africa: West African Police Chiefs Agree Joint Security Operations (ECOWAS)

A two-day meeting of the Technical Sub-Committees of the West African Police Chiefs Committee (WAPCCO) ended on Friday, 15th July 2011 in Conakry, Guinea with participants… Read more »

West Africa: ECOWAS Loses a Commissioner

The ECOWAS Commission has announced with deep regret the death of its pioneer Commissioner for Trade, Industry and Mines, Tourism and Free Movement of Persons and Goods, Honourable… Read more »