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ECOWAS Court Goes Digital, Targets Faster Justice for 400 Million West Africans

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2026

…Regional court launches electronic filing, virtual case management, sets 2030 deadline for fully paperless judiciary The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS on Monday formally launched its Electronic Case Management System (ECMS), ushering in what it described as the most significant digital

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ECOWAS Court Throws Out SERAP’s Suit Against Nigeria’s Borrowing

Daily Dispatch June 27, 2026

..Cites Lack of Evidence The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, has dismissed a suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) challenging Nigeria’s public borrowing practices, ruling that the organisation failed to provide sufficient evidence to prove that the country’s debt accumulation had resulted in violations

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ECOWAS Court Orders Nigeria to Pay Journalist ₦10m for Rights Violations During #EndBadGovernance Protest

Daily Dispatch June 26, 2026

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has found the Federal Republic of Nigeria liable for violating the fundamental rights of journalist and President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), FCT Correspondents’ Chapel, Mr. Jide Oyekunle, during the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests in Abuja and ordered the government to pay him ₦10 million in compensation. In […]

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ECOWAS Seeks Renewable Energy Revolution to Power Rural Development

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2026

The ECOWAS Parliament has launched a fresh push for a renewable energy revolution across West Africa, declaring that access to electricity must become the cornerstone of efforts to tackle poverty, unemployment, food insecurity and economic stagnation in the region’s vast rural communities. At the opening of a five-day Delocalized Joint Committee Meeting in Dakar, Senegal,

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ECOWAS Targets Rice Independence by 2035 as West Africa Moves to End Multi-Billion Dollar Import Dependence

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2026

Determined to reverse decades of dependence on imported rice and strengthen food security across the sub-region, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its development partners have launched an ambitious drive to mobilise investments aimed at achieving rice self-sufficiency in West Africa by 2035. The initiative took centre stage at a high-level

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ECOWAS Deploys Technical Mission to Observe Guinea’s Legislative and Local Elections

Daily Dispatch May 30, 2026

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has deployed a technical election observation mission to Guinea ahead of the country’s legislative and local government elections scheduled for May 31, 2026. According to the regional bloc, Guinean voters are expected to elect 147 members of parliament and 342 mayors during the polls, which are considered […]