The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Wednesday, 26th February 2020 launched its rescheduled weeklong outreach programme in Dakar with a special forum dedicated to lawyers and law students, one of the four campaigns planned for 2020 by the Court. ...Read More

Cote d’Ivoire is mulling the prospect of designating the country’s Solicitor General as the focal point for the enforcement of the decisions of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, the country’s’ Minister of Justice, Mr. Sansan Kambile said on Monday in Abidjan. ...Read More

Delegation of the Court, led by the Vice-President (7th right in grey), Hon. Justice Gberi-be Ouattara with Senegal's Minister of Justice, Mr Malick All (6th right) ...Read More

The President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Edward Amoako Asante has challenged members of the Bar association of Cote d’Ivoire to set up a mechanism for providing free legal assistance to Ivoirians who may wish to approach the court for the protection of their human rights but who cannot afford the legal cost. ...Read More

Participants agree “to firmly uphold judicial independence and to strengthen integrity, accountability and transparency in the justice system and reinforce the bonds between these fundamental concepts” ...Read More

A delegation from the ECOWAS Court of Justice, led by its President, Hon. Judge Edward Amoako Asante, has arrived in Abidjan this Sunday, February 16, 2020, for a weeklong outreach to improve the visibility of the Court in the country. ...Read More

A delegation of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, led by its Vice-President, Hon. Justice Gberi-Be Ouattara in Dakar this Saturday, February 22, 2020, for a weeklong outreach to improve the visibility of the Court in the country.  ...Read More

The Minister of African Integration and Ivoirians abroad, Mr. Ally Coulibaly has warned of the possibility of more cases to be filed before the Community Court of Justice by private sector operators seeking the correct interpretation of Community texts and related to the closure of its borders by one of the Member States. ...Read More

The President of the Supreme Court of Cote d’Ivoire, Justice Rene Francois Aphing-Kouassi on Monday, 17th February 2020 blamed ‘ignorance’ for some of the problems militating against the enforcement of the decisions of the ECOWAS Court by Member States of the 15-member Community. ...Read More

Participants to the second High-Level Meeting of the Global Judicial Integrity Network agree “to firmly uphold judicial independence and to strengthen integrity, accountability and transparency in the justice system and reinforce the bonds between these fundamental concepts” ...Read More