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The ECOWAS’ Mediation and Security Council (MSC) at the Ambassadorial level will hold its 38th Ordinary Meeting today, June 16, 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on how to create a safer and more stable West African region. The MSC’s agenda and work programme to be adopted during the meeting, as well as items for decision are fashioned to unearth ways of improving the security situation of the region. At the meeting, memoranda expected to be presented include those on Transitions, Peace and Security Situation, the operationalization of ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF), the ECOWAS Stabilization Missions, Money Laundering and Terrorism…

    The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has provided Sierra Leone with US$500,000 in financial support towards the June 24 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.     The ECOWAS Commission, also, will deploy 95 Election Observers (Long and Short-Term – LTOs/STOs) to observe the elections. The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, approved the deployment of the Observers.     This is in line with provisions of Articles 12 to 14 of the 2001 regional Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance on assistance to Member States holding elections.     The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission will be…

North West turned 10-years-old on Thursday June 15, 2023. The young reality TV star, who has been on both Keeping Up With The Kardashians and The Kardashians, is the daughter of reality TV icon Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West. North West is the eldest Kardashian-West child: Her younger siblings are Saint, Chicago and Psalm. North’s family wished her well on social media bright and early. Grandma Kris Jenner, whom she calls Lovey, was the first as she gushed about how special the budding influencer is. On Wednesday evening Kim and North were seen celebrating the child’s 10th birthday early…

Pedro Castro e Almeida has been appointed to replace Antonio Simoes, who has been hired as the new CEO of Britain’s Legal and General Group (LGEN.L) for Bank, Santander. Santander said on Thursday it has appointed Castro e Almeida as regional head for Europe as the Spanish bank bets on the region to drive growth. As regional chief, Castro e Almeida will be responsible for the bank’s units in Europe, including its businesses in Spain, Britain, Poland and Portugal, the bank said. Castro e Almeida will lead the transformation in the region and report to the group’s CEO, Hector Grisi,…

The European Union took an important step on Wednesday toward passing what would be one of the first major laws to regulate artificial intelligence, a potential model for policymakers around the world as they grapple with how to put guardrails on the rapidly developing technology. The European Parliament, a main legislative branch of the European Union, passed a draft law known as the A.I. Act, which would put new restrictions on what are seen as the technology’s riskiest uses. It would severely curtail uses of facial recognition software, while requiring makers of A.I. systems like the ChatGPT chatbot to disclose…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Trade Centre (ITC), organized a regional capacity building workshop for Master Trainers from Business Associations on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) from 6 – 8 June 2023 in Abuja – Nigeria. In her remarks, Madame Massandjé Toure-Litse, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Agriculture, highlighted the need for West African businesses to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the African continental market. She reiterated the commitment of the ECOWAS Commission to support the Private Sector…

    President Joe Biden’s re-election bid on Wednesday, received an endorsement from a collection of the leading and big spending environmental groups in an early sign that he has consolidated their support despite some recent policy moves that angered climate activists.     The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund, billionaire Tom Steyer’s NextGen PAC, NRDC Action Fund and the Sierra Club endorsed Biden during an LCV dinner in Washington. This is the first time the four groups have ever jointly announced a presidential endorsement, according to the Biden campaign.     “Together, we’ve made a lot of…

John Cena has come a long way from the ring to movie debut and DC Extended Universe. But the star got his big break in Hollywood by appearing in the Fast series. Appearing alongside some of the biggest action stars like Vin Diesel completely changed his persona in the eyes of the mainstream public. Just like how Fast Five was instrumental in Dwayne Johnson’s career, the same could happen with Cena’s career. But unlike Johnson, Cena has always talked about Diesel in a positive light. Being the brother of Diesel’s character in the movie puts that much pressure…

Freetown: With the Freetown Mayoral Elections only a few weeks away, a new poll shows Gento Mohammed Kamara is keeping his lead over counterpart Yvonne Aki-Sawyer amidst weeks of political campaigns. In a recent survey by international  independent body, Reputation Poll International (RPI), 53% of respondents said they would vote for Gento and 44% would vote his counterpart, Yvonne. However, 3% were undecided. The urban area Poll revealed that Gento Kamara, who is candidate for Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is ahead of All People’s Congress’ (APC) Aki-Sawyer, who despite incumbency falls behind in the survey. Should the results of…

A new €300 million lending agreement between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and BNG Bank will facilitate low-cost financing for Dutch public sector entities. The loan follows a memorandum of understanding between the two financial institutions, which stipulates that they will exchange knowledge and experience with the goal of stimulating public investments in the Netherlands. Under the agreement, the EIB is making €300 million available to BNG Bank, which commits itself to on-lend the amount on favourable terms mainly to healthcare and educational institutions. Since the EIB typically only finances up to 50% of the total cost of a project,…