Month: May 2025

 In a renewed effort to enhance free movement of persons and goods and strengthen regional integration and trade across West Africa, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Commission) is intensifying collaboration with Community citizens and key stakeholders to advance the effective implementation of the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, Goods, and Services. As part of this initiative, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency Dr. […]

 The ECOWAS Commission, through its Directorate of Humanitarian and Social Affairs, convened a high-level virtual consultation with Member States, regional social partners, and development stakeholders on 6 May 2025 to review and enrich the Draft ECOWAS Labour Migration Strategy and Action Plan (2025–2035). The pre-validation meeting represents a crucial step towards finalising the Strategy, which is designed to strengthen the governance of labour migration across the ECOWAS region. Anchored in […]

 The Department of Political Affairs, Peace, and Security (PAPS) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission in partnership with the West Africa Democracy Solidarity Network (WADEMOS) is holding a 3-day Regional Conference on Sustainable Participation of Youth in Governance in the ECOWAS region. The Regional Conference is taking place from 7 to 9 May, 2025 in Accra Ghana. Holding under the theme “Harnessing Youth Agency in Deepening Democratic […]

 Exactly two years after Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) first worked in south Khartoum’s Bashair Teaching hospital, Sudan, our team is again joining the hospital’s Ministry of Health staff in partnership to meet people’s immense needs. MSF suspended activities at the hospital in January 2025 after repeated violent incidents. Our initial focus will be the worrying and growing cholera outbreak. “Our team in Bashair Teaching hospital has been working to ensure that the 20-bed cholera treatment unit […]

 Health Cabinet Secretary Hon. Aden Duale held bilateral talks with U.S. Chargé d’Affaires H.E. Marc Dillard to strengthen strategic health collaboration and review ongoing U.S. foreign assistance to Kenya. The discussions focused on expanding cooperation in key areas such as health workforce development, digital health and information systems, non-communicable diseases, mental health, and the climate-health nexus—all central to Kenya’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) agenda. Hon. Duale welcomed continued partnership through […]

  Norinco Group guided bombs and howitzers used in attacks Weapons almost certainly provided by UAE to RSF in Sudan “Civilians are being killed and injured because of global inaction” – Brian Castner Sophisticated Chinese weaponry, re-exported by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been captured in Khartoum, as well as used in Darfur in a blatant breach of the existing UN arms embargo, Amnesty International said following a new […]

 On May 7th, Yin Chengwu, Chinese Ambassador to Liberia attended the Official Launch of the Government Town Hall Initiative. H.E. Sara Beysolow Nyanti, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Jerolinmek Matthew Piah, Minister of Information,Culture Affairs&Tourism, Hon. Augustine K. Ngafuan, Minister of Finance&Development Planning, and envoys of some countries to Liberia attended the event. Yin stated that the Liberian government has made important achievements in promoting the AAID agenda, and wished that this initiative […]

 When the peacekeeping patrol arrived in Tonj North County, their mission was clear: assess the security situation and maintain a protective presence in an area long affected by intercommunal violence. But what awaited them in Marial-Lou was far from routine. As the team of peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, including Bangladeshi troops, military observers and community liaison officers, began setting up their temporary base, they […]

 The AUMISS, IGAD, UNMISS and RJMEC (the Quartet) are increasingly concerned by the rapid deterioration of the political and security situation across South Sudan. The Quartet calls on the country’s leaders to cease hostilities immediately and return to dialogue to progress the inclusive implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS). Ongoing air and ground attacks are leading to an alarming […]