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ECOWAS team negotiates with Niger on return to civil rule
3 years agoPresident Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone (left); President, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray; Chairman, ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government/Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu; Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo and others during their 64th Ordinary Session at the State House, Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: PHILIPS OJISUA
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met yesterday in Abuja for talks about the region’s deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts.