Abuja, 7th May, 2019. Representatives of the ad-hoc Ministerial Committee on the construction of the new headquarters of Community institutions for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on 7th May 2019 in Abuja, Nigeria approved the proposal of … Continue reading →

1. Public and private sector leaders from 12 countries gathered today in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to discuss and agree on ways to boost opportunities for women entrepreneurs in West Africa. The Summit was organized by the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative … Continue reading →

Abidjan, 3 May 2019. Ivorian Senior Minister and Minister of Defence, Hamed Bakayoko, urged members of Cote d’Ivoire’s Statutory Council of the National Coordination Centre for the Coordination of Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CNCMR) to galvanise the body and … Continue reading →

Abuja, 2nd May 2019. The Network of Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa (NACIWA) has recommended a series of measures to aid the development of faculties for training on Corruption Risk Assessment (CRA) in Member States. At the end of their … Continue reading →

Joint statement by ECOWAS And United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) ON Benin’s Post-Electoral Situation  The Economic Community of West African States and the Office of the United Nations for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) … Continue reading →

Abuja, 2 May 2019. The President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, tasked the regional body to prepare well ahead of the 2019 edition of the World Radiocommunication Conference slated for … Continue reading →

Abuja, 30th April, 2019. The Directorate of Environment of the ECOWAS Commission meets with the Climate Change Project Steering Committee and relevant stakeholders to strengthen regional capacity to adapt to climate change and the challenges associated with it. The one-day … Continue reading →