ECOWAS

Almost 200 guests are in Lomé as of this Wednesday to discuss the new currency, the eco, which was decided on December 21, 2019 in Abidjan by the French and Ivorian presidents, Emmanuel Macron and Alassane Ouattara. as reported from Lomé, Peter Sassou DogbéIt is expected that this currency will eventually replace the CFA franc…

Mali plunged back into crisis on Monday after the military arrested the country's president, prime minister and defense minister after a government reshuffle earlier in the day, which sparked widespread international condemnation and calls for immediate release. The arrests sparked fears of a second coup as President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane lead a caretaker government that was installed following a coup in August under the threat of regional sanctions. Coup leaders and army officers…

The Malaysian military arrested the president, prime minister and defense minister of the African country's caretaker government on Monday after a change of government, several diplomatic sources and government sources told Reuters, indicating that a coup was on the way. President Bah Ndaw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and Defense Minister Souleymane Doucoure were all taken to a military base in Kati outside the capital, Bamako, hours after two military members lost their positions in a change of…

This technique requires candidates for the assorted elections to acquire sponsorship from 1% of voters to run. Through the 2019 presidential election, solely 5 personalities had been capable of cross this threshold and current themselves. This regulation was questioned by opposition events together with the USL, Social Liberal Union, which seized the subregional jurisdiction in December 2019.…

According to the Gambia's Red Cross, more than 250 Senegalese citizens fled the fishing village of Sanyang, about 40 kilometers south of Banjul, after clashes between Senegalese and Gambians last week. It all started with the death of a Gambian, stabbed to death on the night of 14 to 15 March by a Senegalese fisherman who tried to rob him. Unrest broke out in the resort. Senegalese authorities are…

The lawyers for the opponents of the UFDG accused of "manufacturing and possessing weapons of war and attacks on the fundamental interests of the nation", this week seized the ECOWAS court. The lawyers for the detained members of the Union of Democratic Forces in Guinea are asking this sub-regional court to rule on a procedure…

Nigeria decided on Wednesday, December 16, to partially resume its land borders with its neighbors. Four border posts are affected, on the side of Niger, Benin and Cameroon. The reopening will take place gradually and all trade will resume at all pedestrian crossings by 31 December, with the exception of certain products. The borders had been closed for almost a year and a half. The measure was…

ECOWAS and the African Union Observation Mission delivered their conclusions to Hotel Ivoire. Both acknowledge the holding of the election, which is even qualified as "globally satisfactory" by the AU, but they also point to a context of strong political differences and the events that punctured the vote. Again, the two African intergovernmental institutions are calling on political actors for dialogue.…

Opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo, President Alpha Condé's main opponent in Sunday's presidential election, declared himself the winner of the vote on Monday afternoon. The Independent National Electoral Commission, for its part, recalled that it was the only one authorized to announce the results of this first round. as reported…

In Côte d'Ivoire, the ECOWAS ministerial mission completed its two-day mission on Monday 19 October. In its final statement, the delegation from the West African Economic Community called for restraint, but also called on Pascal Affi N'guessan from the FPI and Henri Konan Bedié from the PDCI to reconsider their words on the order of boycott of the electoral process and civil disobedience.…