Touray Takes Over As ECOWAS Commission President

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has announced that there will be a change of management at the commission as the tenure of current management led by Jean-Claude Kassi Brou comes to an end after four years.

According to a statement issued on Tuesday by Salett Nogueira, of the Communications Division of the Commission, Brou will hand over to a new management that will be led by Dr. Omar Alieu Touray from The Gambia, from July 13, 2022, at the ECOWAS Commission Headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.

Other statutory appointees heading ECOWAS institutions will also be assuming office.

The new Statutory appointees were named at the just concluded 61st Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in Accra on July 3, 2022.

They will serve for a period of four years.