Since January 2025 when Niger, Niger and Burkina Faso and Mali officially withdrew their membership of the Economic ...

Musa was asleep in the village of Dusuman in northeast Nigeria when he was awoken by a sharp burst of gunfire and Boko Haram ...

The Economic Community ... It will “finance the activities” of the bloc, it said, without giving details. The move ends free trade across West Africa, whose states have for decades fallen ...

He emphasized Nigeria's pride in hosting TOLAC for the first time, describing it as a major step in strengthening youth participation and economic ... moment for West African sports, and ECOWAS ...

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters Breakingviews) - West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African ...

Would strong regional central banks or even a continental central bank have helped? The regional experience of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gives a glimpse of what is needed ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have all withdrawn from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc to form the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). "We sent at least three letters to the ...

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"It's an economy that feeds the conflict," Flore Berger ... Its splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), instead prefers to impose taxes on local livestock farmers, said ...