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

The split “worsens a legitimacy crisis of ECOWAS which has often failed people’s expectations in upholding the rule of law,” said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer ...

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

Although ECOWAS has said it would leave the doors open for the three nations to continue to enjoy benefits as other bloc members do, the three junta-led countries are launching their own travel ...

President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, said the community would keep its doors open to any state that chooses to ...

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

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

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

“That the three poorest member states decided to leave the bloc makes ECOWAS in the eyes of its citizens look even more like a loser in this conflict,” he said. Widely seen as West Africa’s ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday. The previously ...