Faure Gnassingbe's personal touches to ECOWAS reforms

Since his accession to the presidency of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Faure Gnassingbé wants to make things big. Although the projects on the agenda of the sub-regional organization are enormous, the head of state can not help but add innovations.

For the mandate of Faure Gnassingbé to head the sub-regional organization, the founding fathers would have put together a heavy agenda to achieve the objectives according to the confidences of Marcel de Souza, chairman-in-office of the ECOWAS Commission. This does not prevent Togo from planning some innovative ingredients focused on 4 points.

A meeting on the free movement of people and goods

A few days after his accession to the presidency of the ECOWAS, Faure Gnassingbé was on an "unexpected" visit to the border of Aflao (Togo-Ghana), checking the effectiveness of the free movement of people and goods . A project that obviously holds the heart of General Eyadema's son, hence the idea of a meeting during which the actors will contribute to the solidification of this essential point in the actions of ECOWAS.

Extraordinary Summit on Peace and the Fight Against Violent Extremism

In Togo, the organization of summits is the genius in vogue. So how can we not put this talent at the service of ECOWAS that Faure now chairs? Although a summit on security and development is already planned at the continental level with the support of the Hebrew State, Togo will initiate an extraordinary summit at the sub-regional level in order to "respond and fight effectively against "The violent extremism for an effective" maintenance of peace and security in the region "in the words of Robert Dussey, Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Sub-regional Integration.

An economic forum

The idea is to attract new economic partners to the West African organization while reviving existing ones.

Implementation of an effective health system in West Africa

Even though Faure Gnassingbe's country has been spared the Ebola haemorrhagic fever, the devastating effects of this health crisis in other countries are still alive in the memories. Togo is therefore concerned about the need to initiate advocacy to improve the health system. Not to mention that in the country, the public health system is in total decadence.

All this plan of action was brought to the knowledge of the diplomats accredited in Togo by the minister Robert Dussey in the presence of Marcel De Souza, president of the Commission of the ECOWAS.

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