President Issoufou Mahamadou of
Niger has been elected the new chairman of the Economic Community of West
African State (ECOWAS).
Mahamadou was elected on Saturday
at the end of the ordinary session of the ECOWAS authority of heads of state
and government which held in Abuja.
He succeeds President Muhammadu
Buhari who was elected in July 2018. Buhari took the mantle from President
Faure Gnassingbé of Togo.
The position is typically held
for a year.
ECOWAS announced that its next
ordinary session would hold in Abuja on December 21.
The presidents of 13 of the 15
heads of state attended the 55th session. They include the presidents of Benin,
Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia,
Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
Cabo Verde was represented by
Julio Cesar Lopes, its minister of regional integration while Senegal was
represented by Amadou Ba, its minister of foreign affairs and Senegalese
abroad.
Also in attendance were
Jean-Claude Brou, president of ECOWAS Commission and Mohamed Ibn Chambas,
special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for West Africa
and the Sahel.
Buhari had called on the leaders
of member states to join forces together if they must tackle insecurity.
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