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

General Assimi Goita's approval of the measure had been widely expected for several days, and comes after the country's military-appointed legislative body passed the bill last week.

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

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

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

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

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

In West African geopolitics, ECOWAS mdash;the Economic Community of West African States mdash;now finds itself perched on a precarious edge, caught between the weight of internal rebellion and ...

By LINDA AKHIGBE   Only last month, on May 28, 2025, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, celebrated its ...

Terrorist groups are becoming more daring with increased attacks on military camps across the west Africa region.

Still, ECOWAS has not abandoned its own security ambitions. On Sunday, leaders reiterated the need to operationalise a planned regional standby force, first announced in August 2023 in response to the ...