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Nigeria May Block Israeli Participation in West African Summit
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - A planned summit in Nigeria between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the leaders of the 15 African states that make up the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is in jeopardy because the president of Nigeria has not signed off on the deal. Marcel Alain de Souza, the commissioner of ECOWAS, last month invited Netanyahu to take part in the summit. However, Israel's relations with Nigeria, which will host the ECOWAS summit, took a turn for the worse when its Christian president Goodluck Jonathan lost the election in 2015 to Muhammadu Buhari, who is Muslim. Nigeria's voting pattern on Israel in international forums has changed for the worse since the election.