The European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, and the President of the ECOWAS Commission (Economic Community of West African States), the Gambian Omar Alieu Touray, signed, on Thursday 19 October in Abuja (Nigeria), seven financing agreements for programmes of this African regional organisation with which the EU intends to strengthen its partnership (see EUROPE B13239A4).
“ECOWAS has a central role in stabilising West Africa”, declared Ms Urpilainen at the...