Le Centre d' Information et de Coordination (CIC) for the regional electricity market of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is now inaugurated in the town of Abomey Calavi in Benin. The inauguration ceremony was held on Friday, November 17, 2023 in this town.

Le Information and Coordination Center will allow West African countries to deal with issues related to electric power. It now ensures the regional market in the ECOWAS region and is under the aegis of the West African electrical energy exchange system called in English West African Power Pool (WAPP). The center building is erected on an area of 5000 m2 on an area of three hectares granted to WAPP by the Benin Electric Company (CEB) and is financed up to 30 million euros by the European Union (EU). . The synchronization of the electrical networks of Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia and Mauritania has been ensured since July 8, 2023 thanks to