Overall Best Staff of the Year, Mrs Ndeye Siny Sarr (middle white) with Mr Sanfo Daouda(4th left), Mrs Kofo Adenigbegbe and Madeleine Abdullahi (1st and 3rd right respectively). President Asante (2nd right), Vice-President Ouattara (4th right), Justice Atoki (3rd right) and Bangura (2nd left) celebrated with the recipients. ...Read More

Honourable Justice Edward Asante, President of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (4th left) during the opening ceremony of the eighty-third (83rd) Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers, holding in Abuja, 17th – 19th December 2019. ...Read More

I want to use this opportunity to particularly commend staff for their various contributions to the historic achievement of the Court in 2019 when it delivered 48 decisions, the highest number of decisions in a single year since the establishment of the Court. ...Read More

A total of 48 Decisions were delivered by the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS in 2019, the highest number of Decisions given in a single year by the Court since its inception in 2001, according to statistics made available by the Court’s Registry Department. ...Read More

The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Wednesday, 11th December 2019 dismissed, for failure to prove the claims, a suit brought by the leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, alleging torture, assault, inhuman treatment and the violation of his property rights by the Federal Republic of Nigeria. ...Read More

UNESCO organized, in collaboration with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression (CELE), ISOC and Facebook, during the Internet Governance Forum (link is external) a session entitled “Rule of Law as a key concept in the digital ecosystem(link is external)” on 28 November 2019, in Berlin, Germany, that was attended by over 100 people. ...Read More