All posts by Harouna MAYAKI
Ministers to validate strategy for implementation of West Africa common industrial policy
Mr Kalilou Traoré,ECOWAS Commisisoner for Industry and private sector promotion Ministers in charge of Industry and Quality in West Africa are to meet in Accra, Ghana, 24-25 April, 2015 to consider and validate several documents including the strategy for implementation … Continue reading
ECOWAS statement on xenophobic attacks in South Africa
The Authority of ECOWAS of Heads of State and Government has condemned the barbaric, criminal and xenophobic murder of innocent African foreigners in South Africa, urging the South African Government to act quickly to stop the increasing wave of attacks … Continue reading
ECOWAS to deploy 100 election observers to Togo
The ECOWAS Commission is to deploy 100-member Election Observation Mission headed by former Liberian Interim President, Prof. Amos Sawyer to monitor Togo’s 25th April 2015 Presidential elections. Twelve Long-term observers, which are part of the larger Mission, and made … Continue reading
TOGO women unite for peaceful elections
Participants at the just-ended three-day national training workshop on Gender and Elections in Lomé, Togo have committed to unite and mobilise women for peaceful elections in the country. Togo holds presidential elections on 25th April 2015. In addition, the Togolese … Continue reading
Gen Gowon advocates Government of West African States
Gen. Yakubu Gowon, former Nigerian Head of State and a founding father of ECOWAS, has advocated the creation of a Government of West African States for the commongood of the 15-nation Community’s estimated 300 million people as a building … Continue reading
ECOWAS urges greater participation of women in Togo elections
The ECOWAS Commission has called for an effective participation of women in Togo’s 2015 presidential and general elections.In her speech to the opening of a three-day Gender and Elections Training in Lomé, Togo on 8th April, 2015, ECOWAS Commissioner … Continue reading