West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three countries formally quit the group ...

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

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

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

Some of the West African nations who asked to leave the Economic Community of West African States after recent military takeovers ...

THE Presidency said yesterday that some West African countries that opted out of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, after the enthronement of military government were considering ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

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

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

Some West African nations that announced their departure from the Economic Community of West African States following recent military takeovers are reportedly taking steps to re-engage with the ...

Widely seen as West Africa’s leading political and regional authority, the 15-nation ECOWAS was formed in 1975 to “promote ...

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