The Republic of Niger President, Mahamadou Issoufou on Saturday emerged the new chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Government.
This decision was arrived at after a closed door meeting held at the 55th session of the ECOWAS Summit of Heads of States and Government at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
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President Mahamadou Issoufou has been the leader of the Francophone Niger Republic since 2011 and takes over from the immediate past chairman, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria. (SOLACEBASE)