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Cooperation among ECOWAS members vital to launching common currency: official

STORY: Cooperation among ECOWAS members vital to launching common currency: official DATELINE: Sept. 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:13 LOCATION: Accra CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the conference 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): OLORUNSOLA OLOWOFESO, Director general of the WAMI 3. various of the conference 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): OLORUNSOLA OLOWOFESO, Director general of the WAMI 5. various of the conference STORYLINE: A senior official from the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) on Monday stressed a strong collaboration among member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to achieve the target of launching the proposed common currency Eco for the subregion amid the global economic challenges. Olorunsola Olowofeso, director general of the WAMI, made this call during the official opening of the 53rd Meeting of the Technical Committee of the Member States of the West African Monetary Zone in Accra, the capital of Ghana. In an interview with Xinhua, Olowofeso said the g

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CHINA-BEIJING-WANG XIAOHONG-GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION-MEETING (CN)

(230906) -- BEIJING, Sept. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong delivers a keynote speech at the 14th Ministerial Meeting of the Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control in the Greater Mekong Subregion in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhai Jianlian)

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CHINA-BEIJING-WANG XIAOHONG-GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION-MEETING (CN)

(230906) -- BEIJING, Sept. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong poses for a group photo with the heads of delegations attending the 14th Ministerial Meeting of the Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control in the Greater Mekong Subregion prior to the meeting in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 6, 2023. Wang attended the meeting and delivered a keynote speech at the meeting. (Xinhua/Zhai Jianlian)

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Abhisit hails Japan over Mekong development

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva speaks during an interview in Bangkok on Nov. 4, 2009. Abhitis welcomed Japan's enhanced efforts to promote development in the Mekong subregion.

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Ghanaian FM calls for urgent attention to root out insecurity in West Africa

STORY: Ghanaian FM calls for urgent attention to root out insecurity in West Africa DATELINE: July 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: Accra CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Ecowas flags 2. various of ECOWAS meeting 3. SOUNDBITE (English): SHIRLEY AYORKOR BOTCHWEY, Ghanaian Foreign Minister STORYLINE: Urgent attention is required to root out insecurity in West Africa, Ghanaian Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said Wednesday. Botchwey, who is also the chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers, made this call during the opening of the 48th ordinary session of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council at the Ministerial Level. Despite the untiring efforts by the leadership of the subregion, she said violent attacks were still persistent in the subregion. Botchwey stressed the best guarantee for the safety and improvement in the lives of citizens of ECOWAS would be the restoration of the atmosphere of peace and security in the subre

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Over 16,000 killed in violent extremism in West Africa over three years: Ghanaian minister

STORY: Over 16,000 killed in violent extremism in West Africa over three years: Ghanaian minister DATELINE: May 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:55 LOCATION: Accra CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of military parade 2. various of participants attending a meeting 3. SOUNDBITE (English): DOMINIC NITIWUL, Ghana's Minister for Defence 4. various of group photo 5. various of participants STORYLINE: At least 16,726 people died in violent extremism in West Africa over the past three years, said a senior Ghanaian official Thursday. Dominic Nitiwul, Ghana's Minister for Defence, said this during the opening of the two-day extraordinary meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff in the Ghanaian capital. Over the past three years, there have been 5,306 terror-related attacks within the subregion, claiming over 16,726 lives, with several thousand injuries and millions displaced, Nitiwul said. He added that more than 840 attacks had taken place in the first thr

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CAMBODIA-PHNOM PENH-NEW SPECIES-GREATER MEKONG

(220126) -- PHNOM PENH, Jan. 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Undated photo shows a Cardamom leaf-litter frog in the Cardamom Mountains at Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia's western Pursat province. A bent toed gecko and a Cardamom leaf-litter frog in Cambodia are among the 224 newly discovered species in the Greater Mekong subregion in 2020, said a World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) report released on Wednesday. (Thy Neang/WWF/Handout via Xinhua)

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CAMBODIA-PHNOM PENH-NEW SPECIES-GREATER MEKONG

(220126) -- PHNOM PENH, Jan. 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on July 19, 2019 shows a bent toed gecko in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia. A bent toed gecko and a Cardamom leaf-litter frog in Cambodia are among the 224 newly discovered species in the Greater Mekong subregion in 2020, said a World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) report released on Wednesday. (Thy Neang/WWF/Handout via Xinhua)

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Abhisit hails Japan over Mekong development

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva speaks during an interview in Bangkok on Nov. 4, 2009. Abhitis welcomed Japan's enhanced efforts to promote development in the Mekong subregion. (Kyodo)