About 20 ECOWAS Observers in Benin for Local Polls

About twenty observers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are currently in Benin to oversee the 20 April municipal and communal elections, sources said on Friday.

The delegation comprises electoral commission chairpersons from ECOWAS member countries - Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Togo, Mali, Guinea and Nigeria, a source at the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENA) said.

Chairman of the ECOWAS member states electoral commissions network Michel Tapsoba of Burkina Faso was appointed to head the observer mission, while Benin’s Oké Francis from the ECOWAS electoral assistance unit is to coordinate the activities.

The observation mission was dispatched on the field in accordance with the Organisation’s Additional Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance signed in 2001 in Dakar, Senegal.

A total of 3,968,447 Beninese voters are set to cast their votes on 20 April to elect 1,435 municipal and communal as well as 26,000 village and city neighborhood councilors.

Source African Press Agency

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