Freetown, Sierra Leone, 28 February 2018.   Outgoing Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma on Wednesday 28 February, at the Presidential Lodge in Freetown received Prof. Amos Sawyer, Head of the 55-member ECOWAS Observation Mission and renewed his government’s commitment to … Continue reading →

Tenkodogo, 26th February 2018. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has taken further steps to empower women and promote gender equality in the region, especially in its rural areas through the Business Incubator for African Women Entrepreneurs (BIAWE), … Continue reading →

Africa in general and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in particular, has just lost one of its greatest filmmakers. Idrissa Ouedraogo, a filmmaker of Burkinabe nationality, passed away on Sunday, 18 February 2018 in Ouagadougou at the … Continue reading →

Fifth Meeting Of The Task Force On The ECOWAS Single Currency Programme   21st February 2018, Accra, Republic of Ghana     FINAL COMMUNIQUE ( Click here to download the Final Communique)   The fifth meeting of the Presidential Task … Continue reading →

Abuja, 20th February 2018. The ECOWAS Commission and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in Abuja, on Monday, 19th February, 2018 met to review the bilateral agenda between Venezuela and ECOWAS. During a working visit to the Commission, and Venezuela’s Minister … Continue reading →

Abuja, 20th February 2018. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in collaboration with the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Spanish Fund is set to kick off the first phase of its business incubator program to … Continue reading →

Abuja, 10th February 2018. Focal points of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the field of substance abuse from ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania have called for the creation of the West African Network of Civil Society on Substance Abuse (WANCSA) … Continue reading →