The 35th Ordinary Meeting of the Chiefs of Defence Staff of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has opened in Dakar, Senegal.

The 35th Ordinary Meeting of the Chiefs of Defence Staff of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has opened in Dakar, Senegal.
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General GABRIEL OLONISAKIN is attending the meeting with a delegation from Nigeria, in continuation of the multinational approach to end security challenges within ECOWAS member nations,
Top on the agenda of the meeting are deliberations on new structures of the ECOWAS Standby Force and the Peace Support Operations Division.
The meeting will also discuss the ECOWAS Mission in Guinea Bissau, the Exit Strategy and the implementation of the Defence and Security Sector Reform Programme in Guinea Bissau.
The Acting Director of Defence Information Colonel RABE ABUBAKAR revealed in a statement that the Nigerian delegates are using the occasion to brief the wider regional body about the Boko Haram insurgency and efforts by the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Lake Chad Basin Commission to end Boko Haram terrorists’ activities in the region.