The president of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray, in consultations with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Leonardo Santos Simão, has deployed a Joint ECOWAS-AU-UNOWAS Assessment Mission to Sierra Leone, as a follow up to the Agreement for National Unity signed between the Government of Sierra Leone and the All Peoples Congress (APC) party on October 18, 2023.
The Mission is co-led by Special Representative Simão and the former Vice President of The Gambia, Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang and will also pay a courtesy call on President Bio.
The mission will meet with senior government officials and the leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party, other political parties, as well as all relevant actors and stakeholders in the country, including the hierarchy of the security agencies and the Tripartite Committee in the course of the assessment of progress made in the implementation of the Agreement for National Unity.
As moral guarantors of the Agreement, the Joint ECOWAS-AU-UNOWAS Mission urges all political actors and the citizens to remain calm and to prioritize the peace, unity, and stability of the country above every other partisan interest.
