Jean-Claude Kassi Brou

The Secretary-General to the Presidency Colonel Amara Camara told Guinean media that he did not consider the President of the Ecowas Commission Jean-Claude Brou 'the right person' to lecture Guinea on anything...

When Ecowas commission chief Jean-Claude Brou four regional foreign ministers and the chief UN representative in West Africa Mahamat Saleh Annadif visited Ouagadougou on 31 January for initial talks both sides avoided confrontation...

Aware of these threats to the bloc's credibility Ecowas heads of state have now instructed the head of its commission Jean-Claude Kassi Brou to launch a review of its 2001 protocol on democracy and good governance...

It sent a delegation to Conakry on 10 September consisting of the president of the Ecowas Commission Ivorian Jean-Claude Brou and the foreign minister of Burkina Faso (Alpha Barry a former advisor to Condé) Ghana (Shirley Ayorkor Botchway) Nigeria (Geoffrey Onyema) and Togo (Robert Dussey)...

A range of diplomatic actors have met Dicko and various opposition figures but the serious mediation work has been left to the Economic Community of West African States which in mid-June despatched a mission to Bamako comprising the Nigérien and Nigerian foreign ministers Kalla Ankourao and Geoffrey Onyeama the Ecowas commission chief Jean-Claude Kassi Brou and politics peace and security commissioner Francis Behanzin (AC Vol 61 No 12 Keïta cornered)...

The regional Economic Community of West African States is equally unlikely to be overtly critical; the president of the Ecowas Commission the Ivorian Jean-Claude Kassi Brou issued an extraordinarily bland statement on 21 October calling for dialogue without mentioning either Condé's efforts to stay in power or condemning the excessive use of force by the security forces...

Hamed Bakayoko stays on as Interior and Security Minister and is still one of the favourites for Ouattara's job; Adama Koné keeps his Economy and Finance portfolio; Sansan Kambilé remains at Justice while Jean-Claude Brou stays at Mines and Industry and Bruno Nagbané Koné at Post Telecommunications and Information Technology and is also government spokesperson...

His colleague at the Industry Ministry is another banker and an old presidential acquaintance Jean-Claude Brou...

The Prime Minister's Chef de Cabinet Jean-Claude Brou heads the Comité National de Privatisation which decides who gets control of valuable state assets...