Page 15 - Supplementary Protocol News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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 building ef-forts within the ECOWAS region, while highlighting their role in the sustenance of the ...

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 of the electoral commissions of Member States, civil society organisations, media and other experts f...

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 based in Abuja, members of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, members of the ECOWAS Parliament, representa...

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 of Member States; the need for a fair and equitable distribution of the benefits of cooperation; that...

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 address concerns arising from the policy of using hijab in public schools. Advertisement The state has b...