2-day ECOWAS summit on Ivory Coast starts in Abuja Nigeria

AFP

23 March, 2011

2-day ECOWAS summit on Ivory Coast starts in Abuja Nigeria

West African leaders gather for a two-day summit Wednesday that will include talks on Ivory Coast three months after they threatened to use force in the crisis and under pressure to take action. About 100 women held a protest outside the headquarters of West African bloc ECOWAS in the Nigerian capital Abuja in a protest to urge leaders to stop violence in Ivory Coast, which is teetering on the brink of civil war.