Nigerian Times

President Goodluck Jonathan 11 Jul 2011 16:46 Africa/Lagos President Jonathan canvasses speedy ratification, domestication of AfricanCconvention on IDPS ABUJA, July 11, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The current ECOWAS Chairman and President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has called on ECOWAS Member States to ratify and domesticate the African Union (AU) Convention on Humanitarian Assistance and Internal Displacement so as to strengthen their collective capacity to address the challenges of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in West Africa. Addressing the first Ministerial Conference on Humanitarian Assistance and Internal Displacement in West Africa at the ECOWAS Commission on Thursday, 7th July 2011, the President said although at the sub-regional level, ECOWAS Member States have a relief and support architecture, there was the need to strengthen existing mechanisms through the ratification of the AU convention. The AU text also known as the Kampala Convention was adop...

Togo to host 6th ECOWAS Trade Fair in November 2011 LOME, July 5, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Government of Togo will in November 2011 host the 6th ECOWAS Trade Fair, a regional platform for accessing West Africa's market of some 300 million consumers. In a letter to the Togolese Government confirming the hosting mandate, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador James Victor Gbeho, assured that the Commission would deploy all necessary means to ensure that the country records a huge success as it did in 2003 when it hosted the regional fair. To this end, a four-day meeting of the Regional Organizing Committee (ROC) has just ended in Lome, the Togolese capital to fine tune arrangements for the hosting. Members of the ROC paid a courtesy visit on the Togolese Minister of Commerce, Mr. Kwesi Seleagodji Ahoomey-Zunu, on Thursday, 30th June 2011 on the sidelines of their meeting in Lome. During the visit, the head of the ECOWAS delegation, Mr. Adou Koman, tha...