Burkina Faso's military government has said it foiled a "major plot" to overthrow junta leader Capt ... has broken away from the regional West African bloc, Ecowas, ... Burkina Faso coup 2022. Africa.

THE Economic Community of West African States, a regional bloc consisting of 15 member countries—Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo ...

August 2025 makes it five years since Malian soldiers ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in a coup d'état. While the ...

On Sunday, June 22, 2025, the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, under whose stewardship ECOWAS marked the Golden ...

The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great ...

Ibrahim Traoré counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

Former Nigerian President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to ...

General Assimi Goïta, Mali's military leader, has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS ...

Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which ...