The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will have a new seven-member Commission with a new President to manage the affairs of the subregional bloc from Wednesday, July 13,
The Community has decided to reduce its fifteen-member ECOWAS Commission to seven at its Sixty-First Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government held on July 3, 2022, in Accra, Ghana.
Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, a Gambian, takes over from Jean-Claude Kassi Brou as the President of the ECOWAS Commission. The handing-over ceremony is held at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. All other new statutory appointees who were named at the ECOWAS session in Accra will also assume office.
H. E Umaro Sissoco Embaló, President of Guinea-Bissau, was elected as the Chairman of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, and he took over from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana.
Credit: ECOWAS
