Lome, 31st March 2017   . Desirous of improving the capacity of tax auditors, ECOWAS has successfully organized two out of the planned four train the trainers’ sessions in fiscal auditing. The training sessions which held from the 20th to 24th … Continue reading →

Abuja, 30th March 2017 . The Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been elected President of the new five-member Board of the 15-nation ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) for the next two years. The … Continue reading →

  buja March 27, 2017: On 28 March, 2017, Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will commemorate the 2nd Anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration on statelessness in the region with the theme “Joining Hands to … Continue reading →

Abuja, 30th March 2017. In order to prevent clashes that often occur between herdsmen, trans-border authorities and even farmers, ECOWAS has urged herdsmen in the region to obtain among other measures, the community’s International Transhumance Certificate (ITC) whenever grazing movements … Continue reading →

Cotonou, 28 March 2017. ECOWAS Commission President Marcel M. de Souza on Monday 27 March, 2017 in Cotonou charged participants of an International Workshop reviewing ten years of ECOWAS Electoral Assistance in West Africa, to come up with a Cotonou … Continue reading →

Abuja, 28 March 2017. In line with its mandate of ensuring social and economic development of West Africa, ECOWAS has re-launched` the process which will see the African Union Commission transfer responsibility of the Fouta Djallon Highlands to it. In … Continue reading →

Abuja, 28 March 2017. Niger and Sierra Leone are desirous of promoting the ECOWAS Regional Whistle Blower Strategy in their countries and consequently using the opportunity to advocate for their own national policy. The heads of the countries’ anti-corruption agencies … Continue reading →