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 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 ...

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

Niger has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to cease operations and for its foreign staff to leave the ...

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

The 1990s brought some positive changes. With the end of the Cold War, dozens of African countries experienced ...

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

The ruling military junta of Niger Republic has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, to immediately ...

Two West African nations, after military takeovers, are reportedly taking steps to rejoin ECOWAS within the six-month ...

Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...

The EU will remain the world's largest provider of Official Development Aid, accounting for more than 40 percent of aid. This ...