By Favour Nnabugwu
The Gambia’s Omar Alieu Touray is to replaced the President of the ECOWAS Commission replacing Cote d’Ivoire’s Jean-Claude Kassi Brou as the new President of the ECOWAS Commission
Brou assumes office as Governor of the Central Bank of West African States, BCEAO on Monday.
He was elected at Sunday’s Accra Summit to succeed Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo, who held the position for almost two years.
In a similar development, Guinea Bissau President Umaro Embalo is the ECOWAS new Chairman of Authority for the next one year.
The Accra summit deliberated on issues of insecurity and the undemocratic change of governments in Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso and the efforts to return the three countries to democratic order.
