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Health Care Programmes
ECOWAS Mission in Guinea-Bissau Takes Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign to Bissau School
The Office of the ECOWAS Resident Representative and the ECOWAS Stabilisation Support Mission in Guinea-Bissau held a breast cancer awareness campaign at Kwame Nkrumah Secondary School in Bissau on 22 October 2026. Ambassador Ngozi Ukaeje and Force Commander Brigadier General Danjuma Ribah Dantani stressed early detection, while Major Sylvester Alhassan delivered a sensitisation lecture on signs, risk factors and treatment.
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Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana Agree Pilot Product List for Mutual Recognition of Inspection Certificates
Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have selected an initial list of priority products for a pilot phase of their Mutual Recognition Agreement on inspection certificates and approved an implementation action plan. The agreement was approved by ECOWAS trade ministers in May 2025, and the pilot is described as a step towards mutual recognition along the Abidjan–Lagos corridor.
Defense and Security
Maritime Zone F Holds First Naval, Coast Guard Chiefs Meeting in Abidjan
Maritime Zone F held its first meeting of Chiefs of Naval Staff and Chief of Coast Guard at Hotel des Armées in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, from 21 to 22 October 2026. Discussions covered Operation ANOUANZE V and VI, secondment of international staff to the MMCC, HF communication support, logistics, and training on counter drug trafficking and marine pollution.
Social Impact & Development
ECOWAS Culture Experts Validate 624-Event Regional Calendar in Lomé
Cultural experts from ECOWAS member states met in Lomé from 21 to 23 October 2026 and validated a regional cultural calendar covering 624 events. The technical sessions also addressed a harmonised cultural database and reviewed funding criteria for major festivals and cultural projects, with participants recommending annual calendar updates and a biennial regional cultural magazine.
Health Care Programmes
ECOWAS, GIZ Find Staffing, Waste, Water Gaps at Two Guinea-Bissau Hospitals
A joint ECOWAS and GIZ mission assessed capacity-building needs at the Bafatá and Gabú regional hospitals in Guinea-Bissau from 13 to 23 October 2026. It found shared problems including insufficient funding, staff shortages, weak information systems and gaps in hygiene, waste management and safe water access, and set out six proposed areas of intervention pending further assessment and costing.
Women & Youths Empowerment
Four Senegalese Translation Students Begin Internship at ECOWAS Commission Under PAMCIT Programme
Four translation students from Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis in Senegal are interning at the ECOWAS Commission's Translation Section under the PAMCIT programme, which the Commission currently chairs. They are among six students awarded study scholarships by the Commission, and they paid a courtesy visit to Director of Conference and Protocol Olukemi Robinson-Atabuh.