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The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries formally quit the group, forming their own alliance and weakening the bloc's standing and ...

The 5th edition of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum has re-echoed its commitment to advancing stabilisation, recovery, ...

(Ecofin Agency) - The Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) is now turning to the private ... With this new framework, private companies from the six member states can now finance or ...

Ecowas - which stands for the Economic Community of West African States - was founded in 1975 in a bid to improve ... a ...

This is evidenced by the pattern of electoral outcomes, progress in intra-Africa trade, and Africa’s enhanced Africa’s voice in the global arena. Building on these gains through sustained collective ...

Missiles are flying above civilians' homes as fighters fire heavy artillery in Goma's city centre, an International Committee ...

Despite a strong economy, the share of Americans making only the minimum credit card payment hit a 12-year high and ...

Regional policy architecture in the region is distinctly intricate, with the relatively weak Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) sitting alongside several other sub-regional ...

East African states hold considerable collective potential to form a locus of stable and sustainable economic growth on the African continent. Yet they face a diverse array of tests, such as wavering ...

The forecast for 2025 is broadly unchanged from that in the October 2024 World Economic Outlook (WEO), primarily on account of an upward revision in the United States offsetting downward revisions in ...