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Ph: DR: 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS in Guinea Bissau
The sixty-third (63) ordinary session of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), was held on Sunday, July 09, 2023 in the capital of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. At the end of work included in the agenda of the summit, the President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, was unanimously elected President-in-Office of the organization. Among other priorities, the new president at the head of ECOWAS intends to fight unconstitutional changes.
Aline ASSANKPON
At this ordinary session, the Heads of State and Government present in Bissau examined the reports of the ninetieth (90) ordinary session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers held from 6 to 7 July 2023 in Bissau and d other issues affecting the region during their session.
Place for the choice of the new president of the Regional Organization. Unanimously Bola Tinubu is elected current president of ECOWAS and receives the mallet from the hands of his predecessor, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. The institution wanted indeed, the return to the forefront of the great Nigeria; what has just been done. Bola Tinubu, new current President of the Conference of Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): “ Nigeria is back! he declared while announcing his priorities during his mandate; namely: the establishment, the consolidation of democracy in the ECOWAS space.
According to an RFI publication, the current president of Nigeria is resolutely against coups d’etat and does not support the installation of the military in power by this means. Democracy will be the basis of his action at the head of the sub-regional institution: “The Malian, Guinean and Malian juntas must respect the crisis resolution schedule they have drawn up” urges Bola Tinubu.
Elected president at the head of the federal state about two months ago (May 2023), Bola Tinubu is fundamentally against coups in the region and plans to organize an extraordinary summit to take stock of the situation of these three countries at the risk of inflicting sanctions on the junta which will not have respected the timetable drawn up. ” In the event that the time allocated for the transition in these three countries is not respected, major sanctions could fall” declared the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray at the press conference which closed the summit.
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Considered as one of the pillars of the African Economic Community, ECOWAS has as its main objective to promote regional cooperation and integration, leading to the creation of an economic union in West Africa to raise the standard of living. of its peoples, and to maintain and enhance economic stability
economy, fostering relations between Member States and contributing to the progress and development of the African continent.
In 2007, the ECOWAS Secretariat was transformed into a Commission. The Commission is headed by the President, assisted by a Vice-President and five Commissioners, comprising experienced bureaucrats who provide leadership in this new direction. As part of this renewal process, ECOWAS is implementing essential and strategic programs that will strengthen cohesion and gradually remove identified obstacles to full integration. In this way, the estimated 300 million citizens of the community can ultimately take ownership of realizing the new vision of moving from an ECOWAS of States to an “ECOWAS of Peoples: Peace and Prosperity for All” by 2050.
Created on May 28, 1975 in Lagos, Nigeria, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), whose Treaty was signed by 15 Heads of State and Government of West Africa. The ECOWAS region covers an area of 5.2 million square kilometres.
Member States are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Togo.
