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Nigeria - ECOWAS Commission President Mohamed Ibn Chambas has renewed the Commission's commitment to supporting the West African Football Union (WAFU) and helping ensure its success.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | yesterday
The 60th ordinary session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers will this weekend at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Lagos, Nigeria - The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Mohamed Ibn C hambas, Wednesday praised civil society organisations for their role in the ongo i ng campaign to achieve the level of ratification required to make the regional Convention to check the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in West Afri c a operational.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The President of the Commission of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said yesterday that GDP of the region is projected to reach $232.7 billion in 2008.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
As West African states join the rest of the world to battle the current food crisis, the speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) parliament, Mahamane Ousmane, has come hard on governments of all the member states of the sub-regional body, ECOWAS over their policy on agriculture, which he described...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Today, ECOWAS Commission Ministers of Presidential and Public Affairs are expected to adopt resolutions put together by ECOWAS experts of public service and other partners after a three-day deliberation at Bintumani Hotel.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... said gender experts from the sub region had met ahead of the ministe rs' meeting to review the ECOWAS gender working tools from 2009 to 2015 as well as make some other recommendations to the ministers.Banjul - 12/05/2008
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Cabinet Minister Ministers of ECOWAS Hon. Members of Parliament, Commissioners and Members of ECOWAS Commission, Members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps Traditional Rulers, Members of the Civil Service Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen I feel highly honoured to have been invited to address the Fourth Conference of ECOWAS Ministers of the Public Service on issues that are...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas on Friday, 9th May 2008 called for Israeli assistance in ensuring the efficient management of the region's water resources so that it could be better utilized to boost agricultural productivity.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Acting Director, Department of Humanitarian and Social Affairs at ECOWAS Friday said that over 400 million Africans have been affected by employment crisis which has been manifested as a poverty crisis.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Lagos, Nigeria - Participants at a two-day meeting of the ECOWAS Small Arms Programme (ECOSAP) Cluster 4, held in Dakar, Senegal, have called on member states to set up functional National Commissions on Small Arms and mainstream them into national budgets for sustainability.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The ECOWAS Investment and Development Bank (BIDC) has su pported the rehabilitation of Benin's road network with a FCFA3.5 billion loan, the Econ omy and Finance Ministry said here on Friday.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Dakar, Senegal - Visiting Said Djinnit, special envoy of the UN Secretary General for West Africa, Wednesday met in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, President Blaise Compaore, who is also also the chairman of the ECOWAS.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has urged its member states to develop their road infrastructure and address the capacity of their road users and vehicles.
Voices from the South Centre (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Ms. Luisa Rodriguez, Programme Officer, South Centre participated in the workshop to assess the process of identification, by the West African Region, of Sensitive Products in the EPA negotiations organized by the ECOWAS Commission in Bamako, Mali from 28 to 30 April 2008. The South Centre was invited to participate in this event because of its research experience on EPAs and because...
