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President\u00a0Muhammadu Buhari<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday held a bilateral meeting with the Presidents of other West African nations in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the ongoing 56th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.<\/p>\n

The Presidents at the meeting were Alassane Quattara (Cote d\u2019Ivoire); Patrick Talon (Benin Republic); Julius Maada Bio (Sierra Leone) George Weah (Liberia) and Rock Marc Kabore (Burkina Faso).<\/p>\n

Although the meeting has not been made public, it may not be unconnected with the current security problems in Niger and Mali where militants have renewed the attacks on government troops and ongoing efforts to improve economic ties among countries in the sub-region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President\u00a0Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0on Saturday held a bilateral meeting with the Presidents of other West African nations in Abuja. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the ongoing 56th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. The Presidents at the meeting were Alassane Quattara (Cote d\u2019Ivoire); Patrick Talon (Benin Republic); Julius […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":19180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,847],"class_list":["post-19179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-ecowas"],"yoast_head":"\nBuhari, Weah, 3 others hold bilateral meeting in Abuja - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President\u00a0Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0on Saturday held a bilateral meeting with the Presidents of other West African nations in Abuja.The meeting\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari, Weah, 3 others hold bilateral meeting in Abuja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President\u00a0Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0on Saturday held a bilateral meeting with the Presidents of other West African nations in Abuja.The meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-21T16:04:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-12-21T16:05:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Buhari-George-Weah.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari, Weah, 3 others hold bilateral meeting in Abuja\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-21T16:04:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-21T16:05:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja\"},\"wordCount\":122,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Buhari-George-Weah.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"ECOWAS\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-weah-3-others-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-abuja\",\"name\":\"Buhari, Weah, 3 others hold bilateral meeting in Abuja - 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