The ECOWAS Court of Justice (CCJ) has elected Cape Verde’s Ricardo Gonçalves as its new President. It also elected Sierra Leone’s Sengu Koroma as the new Vice President, both for non-renewable four-year tenure.
They were elected by the court’s college of five judges and subsequently inaugurated by Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Embalo.
Mr Embalo is the former chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.
Mr Gonçalves succeeds Edward Asante, who had…
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