2024 ECOWAS Parliament elected first female speaker, Memounatou Ibrahima from Togo, in Kano, Nigeria.

The ECOWAS Parliament elected its first female speaker, Memounatou Ibrahima from Togo, during the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session of the Sixth Legislature in Kano, North West Nigeria. Ibrahima was chosen due to the alphabetical rotation of the speakership, as per the Supplementary Act on Enhancement of Power. She had previously served as the third Deputy Speaker in the fifth Legislature of the ECOWAS Parliament, which she joined in 2021.

May 23, 2024
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