West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three countries formally quit the group ...

Storyline: Many people in Niger have welcomed the country's departure from the Economic Community of West African States ...

Yakubu Gowon, the only surviving founding father of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), says he is ...

ECOWAS and India have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening cooperation, focusing on economic development, investment, ...

It is instructive to state that these external contributions do not determine the policies or priorities of ECOWAS. The ...

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has disclosed that President John Dramani Mahama is working to bring back the three countries that recently opted out of the Economic ...

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, said the community would keep its doors open to any state that chooses to ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

This is despite the official exit of these three countries from ECOWAS on January 29, to focus on their own bloc known as the ...

Two West African nations, after military takeovers, are reportedly taking steps to rejoin ECOWAS within the six-month ...