Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama
has been elected the new head of the Economic Community of
West African States (ECOWAS) at a summit of the 15-nation
regional bloc, his Ivorian predecessor announced on Saturday.
Ouattara has wrapped up two one-year terms as head of the West
African group during which he dealt with the democratic transition
in Guinea-Bissau and the war in Mali.
The bloc’s new leader, 55-year-old Mahama, was vice president in
Ghana when president John Atta Mills died in July 2012. He was
elected the leader of a country seen as beacon of democracy in
West Africa in December that year.
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