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Ivory Coast Government Scraps Free Health Care for All
Côte d’Ivoire is abandoning free health care for all after a brief experiment because of skyrocketing costs. “In nine months the government had to pay 30 billion CFA francs [about US$60 million] under difficult circumstances,” Ivoirian...
New Economic Community of West African States Brown Card Launched in Liberia
Liberia’s Ministry of Transport has launched in Monrovia a newly updated and secured Brown Card of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that will be used by motorists plying international highways out of their home country or in...
Chad Keen on Securing Membership of the Economic Community of West African States
Visiting Chadian President, Idris Derby on Monday in Abuja said his country was keen about securing membership of the Economic Community of West African States.
Talibs Turn Traders in Senegal
It is widely assumed that few of the estimated 50,000 ‘talibés’ in Senegal – boys in Koranic schools, or ‘daaras’, studying to become Islamic teachers – who roam the streets begging for money to support their religious leader (‘marabout’)...
Economic Community of West African States Sending Enlarged 200-member Election Observation Mission to Liberia
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is sending an enlarged 200-member Election Observation Mission, to be headed by the chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Attahiru Jega, to monitor Liberia’s...
Economic Community of West African States to Send Fact-finding Mission to The Gambia for the November 24 Presidential Elections
Dr Christiana Thorpe, the Chairperson of National Electoral Commission in Sierra Leone, is to lead the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) fact-finding mission for the November 24 presidential elections in The Gambia, according to a statement...
Nigerian Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission Recruits 2700 Volunteers
The lull in the fight against corruption is again being reversed by Nigeria’s second anti-corruption agency, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), which has recruited 2,700 National Anti-Corruption Volunteer...
ECOWAS Telecommunications Ministers to Meet in Cote D’Ivoire
The Ivorian political and administrative capital Yamoussoukro, will on October 14th host the 11th meeting of the ECOWAS ministers of Information and Telecommunications Technologies, the Ivorian ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Services has said...
