Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have all gone through military coups and jihadist insurgencies in recent years. ECOWAS member state Guinea is also run by a military government after a 2021 coup.

The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.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 previously announced withdrawal ...

3 coup-hit West African nations formally leave ECOWAS in an unprecedented disintegration The three junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Abstract Togo, a small West African nation, has long been a case study of autocratic persistence under the prolonged rule of ...