ECOWAS set a six-month transition period from Jan. 29, 2025 to July 29, 2025 on Dec. 15 to encourage the AES to reconsider their exit.

President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, the newly elected chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and ...

The Sixty-seventh Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has approved a 2-year extension for its peacekeeping ...

ECOWAS gets a new leader at pivotal time for West Africa Sertan Sanderson 06/24/2025 Sierra Leone's president is assuming the rotating leadership of the Economic Community of West African States.

By LINDA AKHIGBE Only last month, on May 28, 2025, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, celebrated its 50th anniversary with huge fanfare, commemorating the event with official ...

The Chief Judge of ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, Justice Ricardo Gonçalves, has lamented the unwillingness of members to enforce the judgment of the court, noting that was undermining ...

The event, themed ‘ECOWAS at 50: A High-Level Reflection Conference of Leaders’, is part of activities commemorating the golden jubilee of the regional bloc.

His election took place during the 67th Ordinary Summit of ECOWAS, held Sunday in Abuja, Nigeria. President Bio will serve a one-year term in the rotating leadership position, succeeding Nigerian ...

Bola Tinubu concludes his ECOWAS chairmanship, passing leadership to Sierra Leone’s President Bio amid calls for democratic stability and regional security.

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been named the new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at a time when the regional bloc is grappling with one of the ...