NEWS

Togolese Public Health Expert Takes Charge of West Africa’s Health Agency

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2026

The West African Health Organisation (WAHO), the specialised health institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has entered a new leadership era with the assumption of office of Togolese public health expert, Professor Palokinam Pitché, as its Director-General.

FEATURES

ECOWAS At A Crossroads As Touray Ends Four-Year Era

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

By Michael Olukayode The departure of Dr Omar Alieu Touray as President of the ECOWAS Commission closes a four-year chapter in the history of West Africa’s foremost regional organisation, but it also opens one of its most uncertain. Touray, a Gambian diplomat who took charge of the Commission in 2022, leaves office after presiding over […]

TECHNOLOGY

Liberia: How Nigeria’s Soldiers Paid the Price for West Africa’s Peace

Daily Dispatch August 27, 2026

For Nigeria, the war in Liberia was never just another foreign conflict. It became a war fought at a distance but paid for in Nigerian blood, as hundreds of soldiers were deployed into one of West Africa’s most brutal civil wars in an attempt to stop the violence from engulfing the region. More than three […]

NEWS

ECOWAS Moves Chinese Security Equipment to Boost West Africa’s Anti-Terrorism Fight

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2026

….Regional bloc hails Nigeria’s leadership, donates vehicles to Armed Forces The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has commenced arrangements to move a large consignment of security and logistics equipment donated by the Chinese government and kept in Nigeria for years, as the regional bloc steps up preparations to strengthen its response to terrorism […]

HEALTH

ECOWAS Deploys 30 Ambulances to Strengthen Emergency Healthcare Across West Africa

Daily Dispatch August 15, 2026

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has stepped up efforts to strengthen emergency healthcare across the region with the deployment of 30 fully equipped ambulances to improve the speed and quality of medical response to life-threatening emergencies. The ambulances were formally handed over on Friday, August 14, 2026, in Lomé, Togo, under an […]

NEWS

ECOWAS Moves to Tear Down Trade Barriers Along Abidjan-Lagos Corridor

Daily Dispatch August 14, 2026

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has intensified efforts to dismantle persistent barriers to cross-border trade and movement, bringing Ghana, Togo and Benin together in a high-level push to make one of West Africa’s busiest economic corridors faster, safer and more predictable. The regional bloc held a high-level dialogue and sensitisation programme