Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger had military coups in recent years and plan to leave the West African region bloc. At talks in Abuja, they were given until July to reconsider their looming exit.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A survey of Togolese citizens recently looked into perceptions of their government’s handling of the terrorist threat in the northern region and of the Alliance of Sahel States ...

Burkina Faso is many things. The country is considered to be the epicenter of global terrorism today. It is ranked number one ...

President Tinubu’s leadership in the regional body’s highest decision-making organ began on 9 July, 2023, at the ECOWAS summit of Heads of State and Government in Guinea Bissau. As a mark of ...

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