President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, has said that the regional bloc requires approximately 2.61 billion dollars to operationalise its proposed 5,000-strong ECOWAS Standby Force, ESF. Touray disclosed this during a joint meeting of ECOWAS Ministers of Finance and Defence held on Friday in Abuja. The meeting aimed to finalise the modalities for […] The post ECOWAS standby force requires $2.6bn for takeoff — Touray appeared first on Daily Nigerian .