LAGOS, Sept 27 (AFP) - A meeting of west African leaders to discuss the fighting in the Ivory Coast has been moved to Ghana, officials from the regional grouping ECOWAS said Friday, confirming a Sengalese statment. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had first planned to hold the meeting in Dakar next week, but then moved it forward to Sunday in Abidjan, before finally plumping for Accra. "I'm at the airport trying to get my flight to Accra now, I hope they don't change the venue again," said a senior ECOWAS source. "We hope that all the regional leaders will be there. They have said they will be, but with the venue changing so often it's hard to be sure," the source, who asked to remain anonymous, said. Another official said ECOWAS executive secretary Mohammed Ibn Chambas and senior staff were in the Togolese capital Lome and preparing to travel to Ghana. Earlier the office of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, current ECOWAS chairman, had said: "At the invitation of ... John Kufuor, president of the Republic of Ghana, the extraordinary ECOWAS summit on the situation in Ivory Coast will take place in Accra on Sunday." Fighting broke out last week in Ivory Coast after a group of soldiers mutinied in protest at their imminent demobilisation. The government described the mutiny as a failed coup attempt. The rebels now hold at least three northern towns and at least 300 people have been killed in fighting between mutineers and loyalist troops. Nigeria said Thursday that it had sent three jet fighters to Ivory Coast as the vanguard of a possible west African intervention source, which ECOWAS could choose to send to help the Ivorian authorities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~