Ecowas for dia announcement tok say dem go keep di doors open sake of spirit of regional solidarity. But di move by di Sahel State kontries ... Nigeria President Bola Tinubu be di Chairman ...

The ex-envoy called on President Bola Tinubu to appoint ... their decision to leave ECOWAS, the bloc should create an alternative platform—an “ECOWAS plus the Sahel States” arrangement ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29 ... against civilians are rife in the Sahel region and access to national ...

In 2023, the three states formed their own bloc, the Alliance of Sahel States, seeking closer ties with Russia. Touray said ECOWAS plans to hold a technical session with the three countries to ...

They celebrated their nations' imminent withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ... and Mali have formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in response.

ABUJA, Nigeria — (AP) — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday. The ...

Nigeria, whose current presidency of ECOWAS is held by President Tinubu, cannot allow history to record the downfall of this subregional organisation. As the successor to Yakubu Gowon, the ...

The split “worsens a legitimacy crisis of ECOWAS which has often failed people’s expectations in upholding the rule of law,” said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad ...