Press Releases
ECOWAS Urges Stakeholders to Ensure Effective collaboration to deliver the Lagos-Abidjan Highway Corridor
Stakeholders stress Need for Deployment of ICT to Facilitate Development
(Abuja, 1st Nov. 2016). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) stakeholders and specialists have stressed the need for deployment of ICT to facilitate development and meaningful integration. At the 5th Technical Committee Meeting on the Computerization of ECOWAS Institutions which began … Continue reading
ECOSHAM Technical Committee Meeting – THC6 Tourism (01 – 03 November 2016, Banjul – The Gambia)
Abuja, 28 October, 2016 – Within its specific objective 2, “Private sector has access to strategically prioritized and harmonized standards for facilitated regional and international trade”, one of the important activities of the WAQSP is to support the organization of … Continue reading
The Director of the ECOWAS Early Warning, Dr. Gueye Abdou Lat, visited Mali on 16-19 October, 2016
On the advocacy tour of the National Early Warning and Response Mechanism, to the five implementing pilot countries, (Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso) the Director of the ECOWAS Early Warning, Dr. Gueye Abdou Lat, on behalf … Continue reading
ECOWAS Improves Regional Security, Incorporates International Humanitarian Laws
ECOWAS has moved to strengthen regional integration by adhering to internationally acceptable standards in its mandate of peace keeping and regional security through the incorporation of International Humanitarian Laws and International Human Rights Laws into the training and operations of … Continue reading
ECOWAS’ statement in the wake of the armed attacks perpetrated in NIGER, MALI and BURKINA FASO (Abuja, 18 October 2016)
 The ECOWAS Commission strongly condemns the armed attacks perpetrated in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which claimed several lives among the security forces and injured many. It is recalled that on 6 October 2016, twenty-two (22) Nigerien soldiers were … Continue reading
ECOWAS Standby Force holds workshop on International Humanitarian Law
ECOWAS in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Crescent and the Red Cross (ICRC) Â commenced a five day workshop on 17th October 2016 in Abuja Nigeria, with the aim of incorporating International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights … Continue reading