Nigeria, Oct. 27 -- The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has dismissed a suit filed by the Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) challenging the application and the proposal to admit Morocco as a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

A statement by the information unit of the court said, on Wednesday, that the court declared the case inadmissible after finding the non-governmental organisation incompetent to institute the action.

The statement said the judgment read by the judge rapporteur, Gberi-Be Ouattara, dismissed the suit for not being in line with Article 10 (b) on access to the court.

The Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS had, at their meeting held in Liberia in 2016, acceded to the req...