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| ECOWAS | | Last Updated 20/11/2009 11:59:00 |
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 | ECOWAS Council of Ministers meets | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ministers responsible for ECOWAS Affairs in Member State
s were due to meet here Friday under
the auspices of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers to set the budget for the ECOWAS
Commission and its institutions, among
other tasks.
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| ECOWAS Mediator heads to Niger | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Mediator for Niger, retired Gen. Abdusalami A
bubakar of Nigeria, left Abuja
for Niamey Tuesday in continuation of his ongoing consultations with key stakeho
lders in Niger, PANA reported.
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| 41-member Nigerien opposition delegation arrives in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 41-member 'Forces for the Coordination of Democracy
and the Republic', a coalition of Niger's opposition and civil society groups, h
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s arrived in Abuja, the Nigeria capital, for Thursday's meeting with the ECOWAS
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ediator for Niger, retired Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.
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| Sanctions bump Guinea, Niger from ECOWAS retreat | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - ECOWAS Council of the Wise members from Guinea and
Niger are barred from attending a retreat of the council,
scheduled to start in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, because their countries have
been suspended by the 15-member regional bloc, PANA
reported Wednesday.
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| Niger delegation lobby ECOWAS leaders | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A Niger delegation, led by Prime Minister Ali Badjo Gamati
e, on Monday called on Ghanaâ?s President John Evans Atta Mills as part of its e
fforts to lobby West African leaders to lift sanctions the sub-regional body imp
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sed on it.
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| ECOWAS Consultative Meeting on Niger opens | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Consultative Meeting on the constitutional cr
isis in Niger opened
in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja Monday, with the Mediator holding exploratory
talks with a delegation of
the Nigerien government, PANA reported.
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| Nigeria denies shutting Niger Border | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has denied widespread media reports that it has
shut its border
with Niger as part of the fallout of its (Niger) suspension by the regional bloc
Economic Community
of West African States (ECOWAS), for acts deemed inimical to constitutional rule
and good governance.
06/11/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS Suspension: Nigeria shuts border with Niger | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Regional giant Nigeria may have partially shut its borde
rs with its
North-western neighbour, Niger, in the aftermath of the suspension slammed
on the country (Niger) by the Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) for violating the ECOWAS Supplementary
Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, PANA reported Thursday, quoting ECOWA
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and Nigerian government sources.
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| ECOWAS Consultative Meeting on Niger starts Monday | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The ECOWAS Consultative Meeting of major Nigerien stakeh
olders, aimed at re-establishing political
dialogue to create national consensus on the way forward for the West African na
tion, will now start in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday,
PANA reported Wednesday, quoting sources close to the stakeholders.
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| ECOWAS consultative meeting on Niger postponed | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Consultative Meeting of major Nigerien stakeh
olders, scheduled to be held
in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja on Friday (30 Oct), has been postponed indefi
nitely, PANA reported Thursday, quoting
Nigerian government and ECOWAS sources.
29/10/2009 full text... |
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| Niger President dispatches mission on shuttle diplomacy | | Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nigerien President Mamadou Tandja has asked his Prime Min
ister, Ali Badjo Gamatié, to constitute a team which will go round West African
countries to explain the current political situation in his country, official so
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rces here told PANA Tuesday.
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| Nigeria's opposition commends ECOWAS for democracy | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's opposition party, the Action Congress (AC), ha
s commended the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for standing
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p for democracy and the rule of law by sanctioning Niger, where the President ha
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changed the country's constitution so he can run for a third term.
23/10/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS leaders sanction Guinea, Niger | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community for West African States
(ECOWAS) on Saturday imposed an arms embargo on Guinea under its
(ECOWAS) Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons to forestall
further killing of innocent Guineans.
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| BREAKING NEWS: ECOWAS leaders sanction Guinea | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community for West African States
(ECOWAS) on Saturday imposed an arms embargo on Guinea under its
(ECOWAS) Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons to forestall
further killing of innocent Guineans.
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| ECOWAS urged to act on Guinea, Niger as summit opens | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The extra-ordinary summit of the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) opened in ABuja on Saturday with a
call on the sub-regional organisation to act fast to check the
worsening political and security situations in Guinea and Niger - two
of the 15 member states.
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| NNHRI urges ECOWAS to sanction Niger, Guinea | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Network of National Human Rights Institutions of ECO
WAS member states (ECOWAS-NNHRI) has called for the immediate suspension of Nige
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from ECOWAS until democratic structures and the rule of law are restored in the
country, PANA reported Thursday.
15/10/2009 full text... |
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| Guinean junta leader faces possible sanctions as ECOWAS leaders meet | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As ECOWAS leaders prepare to hold an extra-ordinary
summit on Guinea in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja on Saturday,
Guinean junta leader, Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, faces possible
sanctions unless he formalises his earlier announcement not to take
part in Guinea's forthcoming presidential elections.
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| ECOWAS holds human rights meeting in Gambia | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A three-day sub-regional meeting, bringing together a Network of National Human Rights Institutions and civil society actors, organised by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), is underway in Gambia's second capital of Serre Kunda, PANA was informed Wednesday.
14/10/2009 full text... |
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| International Commission of Inquiry to probe Guinea massacre | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Contact Group on Guinea (ICG-G) Monday
called for the establishment of an International
Commission of Inquiry to investigate the 28 Sept. 2009 killing of 157 unarmed ci
vilians and the rape of women during a protest in the Guinean capital, Conakry,
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gainst alleged plans by junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara to participate in the c
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untry's forthcoming presidential election.
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| International Contact Group on Guinea meets in Abuja | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Contact Group on Guinea (ICG-G) was bi
lled to meet in Abuja, Nigeria,
Monday (12Oct) to discuss the security and political situation in Guinea, where
tension is high following the recent killing
of dozens of protesters by soldiers during a mass demonstration against alleged
plans by junta leader Capt. Moussa Dadis
Camara to participate in the forthcoming presidential elections.
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| Niger Delta: Shell, ELF want ECOWAS Court suit dismissed | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Oil firms Shell and Elf have asked the ECOWAS Community
Court of Justice in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to dismiss a suit instituted ag
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inst them by non-governmental organisation Socio-Economic Rights & Accountabilit
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Project (SERAP), over pollution and associated human rights violations in Niger
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a's Niger Delta oil region.
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| ECOWAS wants African environment properly monitored | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) h
as called on the financial and technical partners of the African Monitoring of E
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vironment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) to take urgent steps towards the e
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fective take-off of the project.âť PANA reported from here on Thursday.
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| ECOWAS justice ministers move to improve legal climate | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ministers of justice of ECOWAS member states on Wedn
esday endorsed the on-going process to establish an appellate mechanism within t
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e ECOWAS Court of Justice system that would allow litigants, dissatisfied with t
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e decisions of the existing court to appeal, appeal for a review of their cases,
PANA reported Thursday.
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| ECOWAS hails success of amnesty in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Commission has congratulated the Nigerian gov
ernment for the amnesty it granted oil militants, saying
it was satisfied with the success recorded so far in the programme.
06/10/2009 full text... |
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| B/Faso President, Compaore, named ECOWAS facilitator on Guinea crisis | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Chairman of ECOWAS, President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nige
ria, Saturday named Burkina Faso President
Blaise Compaore as facilitator on the Guinea crisis for ECOWAS and the Internati
onal Contact Group on Guinea (ICG-G), the ECOWAS
Commission announced from its headquarters in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
03/10/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS/AU/UN delegation heads to B/Faso on troubled Guinea | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A special delegation comprising ECOWAS Commission Presid
ent Mohammed Chambas, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to West
Africa Said Djinnit and a representative of the African Union Friday headed for
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urkina Faso over the situation in Guinea, where dozens were killed when troops f
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red on protesters against military rule Monday.
02/10/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS condemns acts of repression in Guinea | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Commission has expressed dismay that the peac
eful demonstration, organised in Conakry, the Guinean capital, by the Forum des
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orces Vives de la Nation, was met with violent repression, PANA reported Tuesday
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| Rights groups sue Gambia over access to ECOWAS court | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Registered Trustees of the Socio-Economic Rights and
Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Centre for Defence of Human Rights and D
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mocracy in Africa (CDHRDA) have asked the Community Court of Justice of the Econ
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mic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to
stop the Government of Gambia and the ECOWAS Commission from amending the laws c
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ncerning the jurisdiction and access to the Community Court.
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| OSIWA holds round table on Gambia's proposal to ECOWAS | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Open Society Initiative For West Africa (OSIWA) Mond
ay held a "round table" on the proposal made by the Gambian government "to amend
the provisions concerning the jurisdiction of and access to ECOWAS Court of Just
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ce" in Dakar, Senegal, with members of the civil society raising concerns over t
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e move.
28/09/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS Parliament seeks urgent intervention in Niger's crisis | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Parliament has called on ECOWAS and the Afric
an Union to ''intervene immediately'' for
the restoration of constitutionalism in Niger, where President Mamadou Tandja ha
s changed the country's constitution to allow him
to run again when his second term runs out in December.
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| 'MOU between ECOWAS, Israel will reinforce ties' | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by ECOWAS a
nd Israel Wednesday will
reinforce ties between the two in the areas of trade and other sectors of develo
pment, ECOWAS Commission
officials said here.
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| ECOWAS, Israel to sign cooperation pact | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS and Israel are billed to sign a Memorandum of Und
erstanding (MOU) on Wednesday in Abuja, the seat
of the 15-member regional bloc, to foster cooperation between them, the ECOWAS C
ommission said here.
08/09/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS extra-ordinary summit on Niger postponed | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The extra-ordinary summit of ECOWAS Heads of State and G
overnment on the crisis in Niger,
billed for Saturday (5Sept) in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, has been postpon
ed indefinitely, ECOWAS Commission
Spokesperson Adrienne Diop told PANA here Thursday.
03/09/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS plans extra-ordinary summit on Niger | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council Monday recomme
nded that an extra-ordinary summit of Heads of State and Government be convened
in first week of September 2009 in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, as part of the steps
towards resolving the crisis in Niger.
24/08/2009 full text... |
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| African Peer Review: ECOWAS members develop accession mechanism | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Representatives of focal institutions for the African Pe
er Review Mechanism (APRM) in ECOWAS member states began a workshop in Accra, Gh
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na, on Thursday, to develop a common approach that will spur the states to acced
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to the mechanism, PANA reported from here Friday.
14/08/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council to meet over Niger | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council is scheduled t
o meet in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, on 24 August
on the situation in Niger, where the authorities claim a recent referedum has pa
ved the way for the President to change the
Constitution so he can remain in office for another three years.
11/08/2009 full text... |
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| Nigeria NGO drags govt, oil firms to ECOWAS Court over pollution | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organisation Socio-Economic
Rights & Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a suit
against the Nigerian government, the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corpo
ration (NNPC) and six major oil firms operating in the country before
the ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja over pollution and associated human rights v
iolations in the Niger Delta.
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| Resolve Nigerien crisis, Nigerian Lower House charges AU, ECOWAS | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian House of Representatives on Wednesday calle
d on the Federal Government to impress upon the African Union (AU) and Economic
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ommunity of West African States (ECOWAS) to prevail on Nigerien President Mamado
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Tandja, to restore constitutional order in the country.
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| UN-AU-ECOWAS joint mission in Niger over political problem | | Niamey, Niger (PANA) - A joint mission of the United Nations (UN), the African U
nion (AU) and ECOWAS, led by the special representative of the UN Secretary Gene
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al for West and Central Africa, Said Djinit, arrived in Niamey, the Nigerien cap
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tal, on Monday to assess the political situation and hold talks with stakeholder
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following the tense political situation in that West African country.
21/07/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS team in Benin to assess flood devastation | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - An ECOWAS delegation has arrived in Cotonou to conduct a
“rapid assessment'' of the devastation
caused by flooding in parts of the country, following torrential rains that affe
cted more than half of the country’s 77 communities.
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| ECOWAS health ministers to meet in Yamoussoukro | | Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 10th assembly of health ministers of the Eco
nomic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be held 19-24 July in Yamou
s
soukro, the political capital of Côte d'Ivoire, the Ivorian
Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Rémi Allah-Kouadio, announced in Abidjan.
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| ECOWAS organises workshop on capacity building | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Participants from trade support institutions, export pro
motion agencies of member states, ECOWAS technical departments as well as a thos
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responsible for capacity building activities will take part in a workshop desig
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ed to enhance the capacity of ECOWAS countries to boost their exports through in
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ernational trades and regional integration.
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| MFWA appeals to ECOWAS over Gambia’s rights violations | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media Foundatio
n for West Africa (MFWA), has raised serious concern in its letter to the Econom
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c Community of West African States (ECOWAS) over “worsening human rights situati
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n” in The Gambia.
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| ECOWAS urged to intervene in Gambian govt-journalists' saga | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Jim Boumelha, President of global media freedom watchdog
, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), has urged the current ECOWA
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Chairman, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of Nigeria, to help in getting the seve
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journalists on trial in The Gambia discharged.
23/06/2009 full text... |
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| 'ECOWAS to clear salary arrears of Bissau Guinean troops' | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of the 28 June elections in Guinea Bissau, the 15-
member regional bloc ECOWAS is to immediately pay three month's salary arrears f
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r the country's armed forces, ECOWAS chairman and Nigerian
President Umaru Yar'Adua said here Monday.
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| ECOWAS leaders meet in Abuja | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The political crises in Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Niger
and the impact of the global financial crisis are among the key issues being del
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berated upon as leaders of ECOWAS member states gather in Nigeria's capital, Abu
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a, Monday (22June) for their mid-year summit.
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| President Boni Yayi to attend ECOWAS summit in Abuja Monday | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's President Boni Yayi will Monday depart Niamey fo
r Abuja, to attend the 36th summit of the heads of state of the Economic Communi
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y of West African States (ECOWAS), which opens same day in the Nigerian capital,
official sources told PANA.
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| Malian President Touré to attend ECOWAS summit | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré will leave Bamako on
Monday for Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital, to take part in the 36th summit of
heads of state of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), offici
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l sources told PANA on Friday.
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| Banjul, Bamako host ECOSAP Cluster Meetings on Small Arms | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Small Arms Programme (ECOSAP) cluster meeting
s on the effective control of small arms and light weapons will be held in Banju
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, The Gambia, 23-24 June and in Bamako, Mali, 29-30 June, the programme said in
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tatement obtained by PANA here Friday.
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| West African leaders to hold mid-year summit | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - West African leaders will gather in Nigeria's capital ci
ty of Abuja for a one-day summit on Monday to deliberate on recent developments
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n the sub-region, particularly the situations in
Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Niger.
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| ECOWAS defence chiefs to send mission to Guinea Bissau | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - West African Defence Chiefs have agreed to immediately d
ispatch five of their members
to Guinea Bissau to help find “practical solutions to the many political and sec
uri ty challenges threatening to plunge
the country into lawlessness and deeper political instability.”
The decision was taken at the end of the meeting of the Committee of Chiefs of D
efence Staff of ECOWAS member states
in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Thursday, according to an ECOWAS Commission statem
ent obtained by PANA here Friday.
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| ECOWAS defence chiefs meet in Ouagadougou | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Chiefs of Defence Staff of ECOWAS member states have
begun their 25th quarterly meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to review the
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ecurity situation in West Africa and further seek means of ensuring stability in
the region.
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| WAMZ heads of state summit to hold in Abuja | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of The Gambia and Chairman of the West Afr
ican Monetary Zone (WAMZ), Yahaya Jammeh,
has convened a Summit of Heads of State and Government of WAMZ countries for the
Nigerian capital, Abuja, 21 June, a day before
the mid-year summit of regional leaders scheduled for 22 June, 2009.
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| Jammeh receives ECOWAS boss | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has received the president o
f the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Dr Mohamed
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bn Chambas, in Banjul, PANA was informed in Dakar on Tuesday.
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| ECOWAS ministers endorse strategy for infrastructural development | | Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - West African ministers responsible for tran
sport and infrastructure have endorsed a
comprehensive strategy for the coordinated development of these two sectors so t
hat they could be used as a catalyst for promoting
economic development, regional integration and improving the competitiveness of
the regional economy.
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| ECOWAS Ministers to meet on regional infrastructure | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Regional ministers responsible for transport and infrast
ructure will meet from Friday in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire, to elaborate a str
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tegy for the coordinated implementation and funding of priority infrastructure p
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ojects that will stimulate the economic development and integration of West Afri
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| Respect Constitution, ECOWAS tells Niger | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Against the backdrop of the political crisis triggered b
y Niger President Mamadou Tandja's
quest for an unconstitutional third term in office, the ECOWAS Commission has ap
pealed to the country's authorities to abide
by their Constitution and the ECOWAS Additional Protocol on Democracy and Good G
overnance.
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| Gambian troops leave for ECOWAS training in Burkina Faso | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Members of Gambia's component of the ECOWAS logistic sta
ndby force, led by Maj. Ousman Gomez, left Banjul Tuesday for Burkina Faso, via
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enegal, to participate in the 10-day field training exercise as part of efforts
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owards establishing an ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF).
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