Search
  1. Home
  2. Africa
  3. West Africa
  • News

ECOWAS summit on regional crisis

    ABIDJAN

    A regional heads of state summit meeting will take place early on 11 April and high on the agenda will be the ongoing crisis on the borders between Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, news organizations reported on Monday. This was one of the decisions taken at a summit Sunday between Malian President Alpha Konare - currently chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)- and Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo.

    The extraordinary ECOWAS summit will take place in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to try bring the presidents of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone together to make peace. Hundreds of people have died in fighting along the borders since the conflict began in September 2000. Each side blames the other for the cross-border attacks by unidentified insurgents.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

    Share this article

    Our ability to deliver compelling, field-based reporting on humanitarian crises rests on a few key principles: deep expertise, an unwavering commitment to amplifying affected voices, and a belief in the power of independent journalism to drive real change.

    We need your help to sustain and expand our work. Your donation will support our unique approach to journalism, helping fund everything from field-based investigations to the innovative storytelling that ensures marginalised voices are heard.

    Please consider joining our membership programme. Together, we can continue to make a meaningful impact on how the world responds to crises.

    Become a member of The New Humanitarian

    Support our journalism and become more involved in our community. Help us deliver informative, accessible, independent journalism that you can trust and provides accountability to the millions of people affected by crises worldwide.

    Join