UNOWAS colloquium participants commit to democratic reform i

The Kofi Annan Foundation, United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Open Society Foundations convened the colloquium to examine how West Africa could use landmark regional to shore up democratic standards in the region[1]. Over sixty experts and practitioners from the UN, the African Union, ECOWAS, think tanks, political parties and academia discussed regional trends and how to reverse them.

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