ECOWAS COMMUNIQUE ON THE STATE OF POLITICS IN THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA

The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convened in Extraordinary Session on 16 September 2021 in Accra, Republic of Ghana, under the chairmanship of H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana and Chair of the Authority, to review political developments in the Republic of Guinea. TheHeads of State also reviewed the latest development of the transition in the Republic of Mali.

Present at the Summit were the under-listed ECOWAS Heads of State and Government or their duly mandated representatives:
H.E. Roch Marc Christian Kabore, President of Burkina Faso;
H.E. Alassane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire;
H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana;
H.E. Umaro Sissoco Embalo, President of the Republic of Guinea Bissau;
H.E Georges Manneh Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia;
H.E. Mohamed Bazoum, President of the Republic of Niger;
H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal;
COMMUNAUTE ECONOMIQUE
DES ETATS DE L’AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST
COMUNIDADE ECONOMICA DOS
ESTADOS DA AFRICA OCIDENTAL
ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF
WEST AFRICAN STATES

H. E. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone; H. E. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, President of the Togolese Republic; H. E. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; H. E. Aurélien A. Agbenonci, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Benin; H. E. Filomena Mendes Gonϛalves, Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cabo Verde; H. E. Mamadou Tangara, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad of the Republic of The Gambia.

The session was also attended by H.E. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Goodluck Jonathan, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and ECOWAS Mediator to Mali, and H.E. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for West Africa.