The 63rd session of the Conference of Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) came to a close late on Sunday, July 9. Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, was unanimously elected the organization’s new acting Chairman. One of his priorities at the head of ECOWAS is to combat unconstitutional changes.
Bola Tinubu, the newly elected President of the Conference of Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has just announced that he does not support the installation of the military in power following a coup d’Etat. In Bissau, before his peers, he declared that democracy would be the cornerstone of his action at the head of the sub-regional institution. Nigeria’s President has chosen strong words and shock phrases to denounce and condemn coups d’état in the sub-region.
In the capital of Guinea-Bissau on Sunday, some Heads of State were not at all happy because some of these countries, where there is a military transition and where young people have come to power, have recently refused to receive emissaries from the Economic Community of West African States.
There were also discussions about the installation, for example, of a ECOWAS force with two objectives: to combat terrorism in the ECOWAS zone, and to intervene if necessary in States to re-establish constitutional order.
We also discussed the forthcoming end of the MINUSMA mission in Mali, and the concerns already felt by the populations of States in the sub-region.