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

Niger has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to cease operations, and for its foreign staff to leave the country. The move leaves NGOs throughout West Africa wondering what the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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