A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

The ECOWAS hosted a technical meeting of focal points and experts from the continent’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs) ahead of a high-level summit in Addis Ababa towards strengthening regional ...

FILE - The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries excluding ... photo during their extraordinary meeting in Accra, Ghana, Aug. 17, 2023.

GNA-The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Abuja Office, have ...

The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries excluding Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea and Niger, pose for a group photo during their ...

pose for a group photo during their extraordinary meeting in Accra, Ghana, Aug. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Eshun Nanaresh, File) What is ECOWAS and what does it do? Widely seen as West Africa’s ...

The defence chiefs of ECOWAS countries, except for Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, and Niger, in Accra on August 17, 2024.

The outing would see the President participating in the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU Heads of State and, in his capacity as ECOWAS Chairman ... of high-level meetings, a ...

Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has disclosed that President John Dramani Mahama is working ...

BAMAKO, Mali — 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 ...