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The Feasibility and Engineering Studies for the 6-lane multinational Abidjan-Lagos Corri-dor Highway Project is set to advance into the “Detailed Engineering Design Studies“ Phase
Abuja, Nigeria, June 4, 2021. Ministers in-charge of Road Infrastructure from the five ECOWAS Member States along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor, who form the Project Steering Committee, met on June 4, 2021, to review the progress of the project to Construct … Continue reading
ECOWAS Ministers of Trade and Industry meet on Promoting trade and harmonizing Standards
Abuja, Nigeria, 3rd June 2021. The ECOWAS Ministers of Trade and Industry met virtually on the 3rd of June 2021, to consider key regional and continental trade related developments, Institutional arrangements, regional industrial standards and response to Covid-19. In their … Continue reading
Implementation of ECOWAS cross-border cooperation programme: Member States’ focal points hold discussions on free movement and regional funding mechanism
Abuja, Nigeria, 31 May 2021. Representatives from the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Member States and implementation agencies as well as technical and financial partners held a video-conference on Monday 31 May 2021 to … Continue reading
Communique Extraordinary Summit on the Political Situation In Mali
Communique Extraordinary Summit on the Political Situation In Mali ACCRA, 30th MAY 2021 ECOWAS Commission 1. At the invitation of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO, President of the Republic of Ghana and the current Chair of the Authority of … Continue reading
ECOWAS Trade Experts meet to promote intra-regional and continental trade
Abuja, Nigeria, May 28th, 2021. Trade experts from Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECO-WAS) met virtually on the 28th May 2021 to deliberate on instruments to promote intra-regional and continental trade ahead of the ECOWAS … Continue reading
The 2021 First Ordinary Session of the Fifth Legislature of the ECOWAS Parliament Opens in Abuja
Abuja, Nigeria, May 27, 2021. The 2021 First Ordinary Session of the Fifth Legislature of the ECOWAS Parliament opens to-day, May 27, 2021 in Abuja, Nigeria. The Session was declared open by his H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of … Continue reading
May 28: ECOWAS Commemorates 46th Anniversary
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) commemorates its 46th Anniversary today, May 28, 2021. Forty-Six years ago in Lagos, Nigeria, the leaders of West Africa signed the Lagos Treaty establishing ECOWAS with the aim of integrating the region … Continue reading