Dr. Omar Touray, President of the Economic Community of West African States Commission, has accredited new ECOWAS ambassadors. 

Touray named the new ambassadors on Monday at the ECOWAS Commission Headquarters in Abuja, according to a statement on the commission's website. 

The accredited envoys are: Ms. Annika Hahn-Englund, Ambassador of Sweden to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Ms. Cristian Munduate, Country Representative UNICEF to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Ms Joanna Tarnawska, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Annett Gunther, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; 

"President Touray discussed areas of existing and new cooperation with the envoys with regard to the four strategic objectives of the current administration after accrediting them to ECOWAS," according to the statement. 

"He assured them that ECOWAS will continue to develop and expand areas of partnership and collaboration with their respective countries in order to ensure shared prosperity for the region's citizens."