{"id":80251,"date":"2025-12-15T05:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80251"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:32:58","slug":"abuja-hosts-68th-ecowas-summit-amid-coup-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/15\/abuja-hosts-68th-ecowas-summit-amid-coup-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Hosts 68th ECOWAS Summit Amid Coup Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>West African leaders are meeting in Abuja for the 68th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, with regional security and recent coup attempts dominating discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The summit, holding at the State House Conference Centre, is hosted by Nigeria, with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance are several regional leaders, including ECOWAS Chair and Sierra Leone President Julius Bio, Benin\u2019s Patrice Talon, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s Alassane Ouattara, Ghana\u2019s John Mahama, Senegal\u2019s Bassirou Faye and others.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes amid renewed concerns over coups in the sub-region, including a recent attempted takeover in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agenda, leaders will review the 2025 State of the Community Report, regional security updates, trade integration efforts and country-specific situations, before proceeding to closed-door deliberations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata West African leaders are meeting in Abuja for the 68th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, with regional security and recent coup attempts dominating discussions. The summit, holding at the State House Conference Centre, is hosted by Nigeria, with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu represented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80253,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80251\/revisions\/80253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}