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The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Professor Amin Alhassan, paid a courtesy visit to the ECOWAS Representative to Ghana, Ambassador Mohammed Lawan Gana, on Tuesday, February 12, 2025.
The AfDB and the AU have noted significant progress for some African countries in terms of intra-African mobility, while stressing that political and economic obstacles continue to hamper the continent’s integration.
The ECOWAS Commission says that the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Mali and the Republic of Niger from ECOWAS has become effective on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.
Nigeria’s first shipment under the African Continental Free Trade Area has arrived at Mombasa Port, Kenya.
Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment, Dr Jumoke Oduwole, says that the country is targets an export market of up to $79 billion through the expansion of its export capacity with the African Continental Free Trade Area framework (AfCFTA).
The ECOWAS Commission’s Department of Human Development and Social Affairs (HDSA), through the ECOW Gender Develoment Center (EGDC), had on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, held a consultation meeting on the project to build a Hygienic Napkin and Nappy Manufacturing Unit, in the conference room of the Ministry of the Family and Solidarity of Senegal.
The Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Mrs Tokunbo Chiedu, said in a statement on Saturday that the dual-country initiative, spanning Kenya and Tanzania was aimed at unlocking the African Continental Free Trade Area opportunities for women and youths, by leveraging regional value chains and fostering business linkages.
In a landmark effort to elevate the tourism sector and build the capacity of Tourism officials and regulators to be able to identify and work with the visions and strategies that promote ECOWAS intra-regional tourism as well as the holistic understanding of policies, standards and instruments that shape Tourism.
At its 66th Summit, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) addressed the security, political and socio-economic challenges hindering regional integration.
The ECOWAS Commission President, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray has said that ECOWAS remains committed to advancing West Africa’s integration and development agenda.