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ECOWAS Commission Launches Guidelines on Women, Peace and Security Format In collaboration with its partner, Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the ECOWAS Commission will launch its Guidelines on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) on the 23rd of April, 2021 in Abuja, Nigeria.The virtual/in-person hybrid launch, is in furtherance of the drive to enhance greater gender mainstreaming and bring to the front burner, the importance of women in peace...

April 8, 2021 Former President Koroma Sierra Leone’s former president, Ernest Bai Koroma, departed Freetown yesterday to lead the ECOWAS Observer Mission to the Presidential Election in Benin, scheduled to take place on 11th April 2021. The eighty member observer mission includes experts from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Member States, ECOWAS Ambassadors accredited to ECOWAS and based in Abuja, members of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, members of the ECOWAS Parliament, representatives o...

Press Release FORMER PRESIDENT KOROMA LEADS THE ECOWAS OBSERVER MISSION TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN BENIN *Freetown – 6th April, 2021* – Sierra Leone’s former president, H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma, departs Freetown today to lead the ECOWAS Observer Mission to the Presidential Election in Benin, scheduled to take place on 11th April 2021. The eighty member observer mission includes experts from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Member States, ECOWAS Ambassadors accredited to ECOWAS and ...

By Bola A. Akinterinwa The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was initially established as a sub-regional economic cooperation outfit in 1975. Seven complementary factors were considered in establishing the economic community: need for economic and social development of all the Member States; that economico-social development requires cooperation through concerted policy of self-reliance; that sub-regional economic integration progress requires assessment of economic interests o...

ON THE GO Uche Ekwunife, Anambra senator, joins governorship race Uche Ekwunife, senator representing Anambra central senatorial district, has joined the governorship race in the state.Advertisement Ekwunife, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), submitted her nomination form at... Kwara to set up interfaith committee to address concerns over hijab controversy Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, governor of Kwara, says the state will reconstitute an interfaith committee to addre...

Punch Newspapers Sections SUNDAY ABORISADE A human rights activist and lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, and other prominent lawyers have written a joint letter to the President of Cape Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, seeking the immediate release of a Venezuelan special envoy, Alex Saab, currently being detained in the country. The letter dated January 7, 2021, and addressed to Fonseca, was jointly signed by Falana, Jose M.P. Monteiro, Rutsel S. J Martha and Baltasar R. Garzon, who are all of Saab’s  co...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade, Abuja Human Rights crusader and legal luminary, Mr. Femi Falana, and other prominent lawyers have written a joint letter to the President of Cape Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, seeking the immediate release of a Venezuelan special envoy, Alex Saab, currently being detained in the country. The letter dated January 7 and addressed to Fonseca, was jointly signed by Falana, Jose M.P. Monteiro, Rutsel S. J Martha, and Baltasar R. Garzon, who are all Saab’s...

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer and a counsel to Alex Saab, a special envoy of the Venezuelan government, says the continued detention of his client by the Cape Verdean authorities is illegal.

Top court rules Germany not liable over deadly Kunduz airstrike Afghans who lost family in a German-initiated 2009 NATO airstrike have failed on appeal to establish German state liability for compensation. An airstrike carried out by the NATO force in Afghanistan targeted a fuel tanker hijacked by Taliban insurgents Two Afghan plaintiffs seeking recompense for family lost in a 2009 NATO airstrike near a German base have failed to persuade Germanys (BVerfG) constitutional court to quash a 2016 ...