What is ECOWAS and what does it do? Widely seen as West Africa’s leading political and regional authority, the 15-nation bloc ...

Junta-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso officially quit West African bloc after more than a year of diplomatic tensions ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has dismissed 135 employees in a single day, without prior notice, ...

The House of Representatives has voted to recall Liberia's ECOWAS Parliament members, citing procedural violations in their selection and a lack of political balance.The ECOWAS Parliament, also known ...

THE Presidency said yesterday that some West African countries that opted out of the Economic Community of West African ...

In all these countries, the biggest foreign population is Nigeria. So, Nigeria will need to strengthen our cultural ties, and ...

The bloc, however, said that it has also decided to “keep ECOWAS’ doors open,” and requested member nations to continue to accord the trio their membership privileges, including free ...

It is instructive to state that these external contributions do not determine the policies or priorities of ECOWAS. The ...

The exit of the three Sahelian states thus provides a unique and rare opportunity for ECOWAS to develop without their baggage ...

This is despite the official exit of these three countries from ECOWAS on January 29, to focus on their own bloc known as the ...

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried to avert its unprecedented disintegration.