The military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5 percent levy on imported goods from Nigeria and other Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS ...

The measure, announced in a joint statement, takes immediate effect and applies to all goods imported from outside the three nations, excluding humanitarian aid. The military-led governments of ...

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have imposed a 0.5% levy on imported goods to fund their new three-state union after exiting the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The military-led ...

West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong ...

All these issues will be discussed.” The AES, a new alliance comprising the junta-led states of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, introduced the 0.5 percent import duty on goods coming from ECOWAS ...

The tax was agreed on March 28 and took effect immediately. Humanitarian aid is however exempted from this tax. The three ...

The new concessions complement the extraction of mineral resources, which are abundant in the Sahel states of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Niger, for example, has significant deposits of uranium ...

President John Mahama says he has gained new ... Burkina Faso's military ruler, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, he emphasised that the core issue behind the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger ...

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a recently established pact comprising three junta-led states – Mali, Niger Republic, and Burkina Faso – has ... This new policy counters ECOWAS’s ...

The three countries, now part of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), introduced a 0.5% import levy on goods from ECOWAS ...