The leaders of the 15 ECOWAS member countries aimed to achieve a monetary and currency union by the end of 2020 but abandoned that timetable because the group was not ready. They were far from the ...

The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has commended the recent decision by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ...

The ECOWAS Charter requires a one-year period before ... sanctions which France and the wider European Union declared support for, the ground was ripe for the AES countries to fall into the ...

Transport Ministers across West Africa's regional body Ecowas met in Lomé in November 2024 to address the high cost of air travel in the region. Taxes and fees on international plane tickets emerged ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – who have formed their own Alliance of Sahel States – from West African bloc ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region, Niger's defense minister ...

Emmanuel Bensah, a policy analyst of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union, has called on the ...

In a concerning turn of events, Felix Morka, the National Spokesperson for Nigeria rsquo;s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), made a statement that has sparked widespread alarm .

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS approved Sunday an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations after a nearly yearlong process of mediation to avert the unprecedented ...