On Friday, November 14, 2025, at the headquarters of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) in Lomé, Togo, the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held a ceremony to present scholarships to students from Gaston Berger University (Senegal) and to sign a Technical Assistance Agreement with the University of Lomé (Togo).
This event, which took place under the theme “Promoting regional integration: institutional and academic cooperation in the service of multilingualism”, is part of the celebration of ECOWAS’s 50th anniversary in Togo.
The launching of this second phase of the Pan-African Master’s Program in Conference Interpreting and Translation (PAMCIT) was chaired by H.E. Damtien Larbli TCHINTCHIBIDJA, the Vice-President of the ECOWAS Commission. In attendance were the President of EBID, Dr. George Agyekum Nana Donkor, the new ECOWAS Resident Representative in Togo, H.E. Madam Deweh Emily GRAY, Mr. Lagnie Bambimle, the Head of the ECOWAS National Office in Togo, Mr. Movses Abelian, the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for General Assembly and Conference Management, Ms. Olukemi Robinson-Atabuh, the Director of Conferences and Protocol at the ECOWAS Commission and Institutional Chair of PAMCIT II, along with representatives from partner universities and numerous guests.
