West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong ...

The continent's peacekeepers are key players in its conflict zones. However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one ...

The country had been relying ... effect and the expulsion of the recent ECOWAS/UNOWAS mission here related to its inquiries around the election road map [is] worrying," said Vines.

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is the President/CEO of the ONE Campaign, a global advocacy organisation that fights for equity and ...

The Michika LGA Community Development Plan (CDP) and accompanying Costed Action Plan (CAP) for Implementation were drawn up ...

The three Sahelian states’ split from ECOWAS is reducing security cooperation at a time when West Africa is battling numerous ...

The regional bloc appears to be facing a fait accompli over the three estranged countries which have hardened their positions not to return to the regional fold. This is where ECOWAS Mechanism for ...

We must respect the sovereignty of countries and adopt the mechanism of diplomacy and sanctions rather than kinetic responses to internal affairs of member nations. ECOWAS must also learn from the ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries ... withdrawal from the regional organization ECOWAS, which requires them to organize presidential ...