Security Commission, the Council of Elders, the ECOWAS ceasefire follow-up Group(ECOMOG), and the electoral unit in the Department of Politic Affairs are other examples. The(sub-) regional judicial framework made at the level of the community and mentioned above stipulates certain mandates to member countries as well as to the ECOWAS itself in relation with the challenges to which they are exposed today. Specifically, the regional legal framework in question, particularly the Protocol relating to the Mechanism of Prevention, Management, Resolution of Conflicts, Peace Keeping and Security and its additional Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, prescribe specific mandates to the ECOWAS concerning the challenges that come with the management of elections in member states of the community. These two legal texts, in effect, are clear enough on the mandates which fall on the ECOWAS in the consolidation of democracy and particularly in the management of elections in member countries. They prescribe for example that the ECOWAS be involved in the preparation, the organization and the supervision of elections in its member states. More specifically, the regional texts in question provide that at the request of member states, the ECOWAS can send help and assistance in any form useful for the organization of all elections in the country in question. In this framework, ECOWAS shall, in the eve of the election, send an information mission to the country which may be followed by an exploratory mission and finally by a mission to observe the election in question. In this framework, the ECOWAS, essentially by means of the activities of its electoral unit, has already intervened in almost all election processes in the region. It has, in fact, conducted pre-electoral missions in many countries, notably in Senegal, Nigeria, Mali, Sierra Leone, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Benin, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea. Elections observation missions have also been 224