{"id":3495,"date":"2019-07-02T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"ecowas-elects-niger-president-as-new-leader-adopts-eco-as-new-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/02\/ecowas-elects-niger-president-as-new-leader-adopts-eco-as-new-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecowas Elects Niger President As New Leader, Adopts ECO As New Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By MOHAMMED MOMOH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Authority\nof Ecowas Heads of State and Government has elected President Mahamadou\nIssoufou of Niger as the chairman for a one-year term and adopted ECO as the\nname of the single currency to be issued in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President\nIssoufou was elected at the 55th Ordinary Session of the Ecowas leaders on\nSaturday in Abuja, taking over from President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A communiqu\u00e9\nread by Mr. Mustapha Suleiman, Nigeria\u2019s Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary,\nsaid the leaders lauded President Buhari for his unrelenting commitment to\nregional integration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Niger-leader-elected-new-Ecowas-boss\/4552902-5178340-4hjosr\/index.html\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MOHAMMED MOMOH The Authority of Ecowas Heads of State and Government has elected President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger as the chairman for a one-year term and adopted ECO as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}