West African leaders vow to fire back after jihadist attacks in Burkina
Togo’s President and chair of the regional ECOWAS bloc, Faure Gnassingbe, and Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou on Monday vowed to help Burkina Faso fight and […]
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ECOWAS will meet its 2020 single currency deadline – Heads of State
Members of the Presidential Task Force on the ECOWAS Single Currency Program on Wednesday reaffirmed their political will to introduce a single currency in the […]
Africa: Oxfam calls for improvement of women’s access to land
African women have little or no access to land and the means of production, a report released by Oxfam on inequality said on Monday. A […]
Celebrations in Liberia as soccer star Georges Weah becomes President
Retired footballer George Weah has been declared winner of Liberia’s presidential runoff vote held on December 26. The soccer star defeated 73-year-old running mate Vice-President […]
ECOWAS: Five heads state to greenlight Morocco’s full membership
Morocco will have to wait until 2018 to hear the final verdict on its application for ECOWAS membership. A committee, made up of the five […]
ECOWAS: Morocco’s membership official early 2018
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, will not greenlight Morocco’s membership at Abuja summit this Saturday, postponing the announcement to early […]
Togo’s political crisis must concern West Africa – ECOWAS leaders
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and Alassane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire on Thursday called on the regional leaders to take interest in what is ongoing […]
Togo’s Faure Gnassingbé in Liberia to mediate election dispute
The Togolese Head of state Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé in his capacity as a Chair of ECOWAS travelled to Liberia’s capital Monrovia on Wednesday with his […]
50 years after the Biafra war, Nigeria agrees to pay victims
50 years after the Biafra civil war, Nigeria’s government has accepted to pay $245million compensation to the victims, local media reported. According to papers of […]
ECOWAS member states seek to harmonize national labor policies
Government representatives and social partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), gathered in Guinea’s capital Conakry last week, agreed on the harmonization […]