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Experts & Ministerial meetings for ECOWAS disaster management model hold in Accra
The meeting of experts and ministers in charge for the adoption of the model for National Disaster Management Agency holds in Accra, Ghana from the 21st to 24th of October 2015. The meeting is a key program approved for the … Continue reading
ECOWAS, WANEP review 15 years of Implementing UNSCR 1325 in West Africa
 A conference of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in collaboration with the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) opens today 20th October, 2015 in Accra to review the implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 … Continue reading
ECOWAS – CDP Resource Mobilization Committee meets in Dakar
The ECOWAS Community Development Programme (ECOWAS – CDP) Resource Mobilization Committee meets in Dakar from 15th to 17th October, 2015 to review and finalize the editing of technical documents of the upcoming Regional High Level Conference and Round Table for … Continue reading
President Ouedraogo’s message to Guinean women
 The ECOWAS Commission President Kadre Desire Ouedraogo has challenged the women of Guinea to take their political destiny into their own hands by coming together always and working in harmony as change agents for the delivery of democratic dividends to … Continue reading
ECOWAS deliberates on west Africa-European union partnership agreement institutional framework
 A regional meeting on the Institutional Framework and EPA Development Programme within the framework of the West Africa/European Union Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), opened at La Palm Beach Hotel, Lomé, the Capital of the Togolese Republic on Wednesday 14th October, … Continue reading
ECOWAS Sensitizes Stakeholders on Civilian Dimension of Peace Support Operations
 The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has organized a two-day workshop to sensitize selected focal persons from its 15 Member States and civil society organizations led by the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) on the roles of … Continue reading
ECOWAS declaration on the Guinean presidential election
 PRELIMINARY STATEMENT I INTRODUCTION  In line with the relevant provisions of the Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance (2001) relating to electoral assistance to Member States holding elections, his Excellency Mr. Kadré Désiré OUEDRAOGO, President of the … Continue reading