Press Statement of the Joint ECOWAS AU UNOWAS Follow Up Mission on the ‘‘Agreement for National Unity’’ Signed Between the Government Of Sierra Leone and the All Peoples[...]

Press Statement of the Joint ECOWAS-AU-UNOWAS Follow-Up Mission on the ''Agreement for National Unity'' Signed Between the Government Of Sierra Leone and the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Omar Alieu Touray, in consultations with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), H.E. Leonardo Santos Simão, has deployed a Joint ECOWAS-AU-UNOWAS Assessment Mission to the Republic of Sierra Leone, as a follow up to the Agreement for National Unity signed between the Government of Sierra Leone and the All Peoples Congress (APC) party on 18 October 2023.

The Mission is co-led by H.E. Leonardo Santos Simão, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), and H.E. Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang, former Vice President of the Republic of The Gambia.

The Mission will meet with senior Government officials and the leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party, other political parties, as well as all relevant actors and stakeholders in the country, including the hierarchy of the Security Agencies and the Tripartite Committee in the course of the assessment of progress made in the implementation of the Agreement for National Unity. The Mission will also pay a courtesy call on the President of the Republic, H.E. Maada Bio.

As Moral Guarantors of the Agreement, the Joint ECOWAS-AU-UNOWAS Mission would wish to urge all political actors and the citizens to remain calm and to prioritize the peace, unity, and stability of the country above every other partisan interest.