ECOWAS plans end to Almajiri system.

The Economic Community of West African States has concluded plans to put in place laws and strategies to address the phenomenon of street children popularly known as Almajiris, in West Africa.


To this end, the ECOWAS Commission's Early Warning Directorate said it is organising a workshop in Dakar, Senegal, from June 22-24, 2015, to launch the Regional Support Programme for the organisation's Member States to put an end to Street Children Syndrome.

A statement from the Commission on Monday in Abuja, said at the end of the workshop, a framework on the societal ill as well as a control measure based on the appropriate implementation of laws and strategies would be established.

It stated that the programme launch, which is the first in a series of activities envisaged in the biannual plan of action (2015-2017) to eliminate the street children syndrome in the ECOWAS region, would be chaired by the Senegalese Prime Minister, Mohamed Dionne.