The president of its commission Omar Alieu Touray must now organise the transfer of these institutions to other member states...

The lifting of the Niger trade blockade asset freeze and bans on flights and most financial transactions with the country were quickly announced by the Ecowas Commission president Omar Alieu Touray citing 'humanitarian reasons'...

On the day that Koroma appeared in court to be arraigned 17 January a letter from Gambia's Omar Alieu Touray the chairman of the Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS) to Bio on a prior agreement to relocate Koroma to Nigeria was leaked and went viral on social media...

Opposing the plan for Koroma's exile on 2 January the SLPP officials leaked a letter from Omar Alieu Touray the President of the Economic Commission for West Africa (Ecowas) detailing the relocation arrangements which had been kept confidential by Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio and regional leaders including Senegal's Macky Sall Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo...

' At a meeting with ECOWAS President Omar Touray the alliance's commissioner for peace and security Abdel-Fatau Musah and Niger's foreign affairs minister in exile Hassoumi Massaoudou EU foreign ministers agreed to impose travel bans and asset freezes against members of the military junta in Niger mirroring the ECOWAS measures...

Arriving in Niamey on 19 August former Nigerian head of state General Abdusalami Abubakar ECOWAS Commission president Omar Alieu Touray and the Sultan of Sokoto Muhammadu Sa'adu Abubakar III met with junta chief Gen Abdourahamane Tiani and his prime minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine...

Late last month Ou met Foreign Minister Omar Touray Vice-President Njie-Saidy and President Yahya Jammeh on his four-day stay in Gambia...