His comments come within the six-month transition period the ECOWAS approved for the withdrawal of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso as member states. At the 66th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS ...

Security analysts are praising ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, for activating its regional standby force but remain doubtful about its effectiveness following the recent ...

In a letter dated March 7 ... the email clarified that acknowledgment did not equate to automatic approval, signaling ECOWAS' cautious approach to the matter. Senator Edwin Snowe, Liberia's ...

Lawmakers Johnson S.N. Williams and James Kolleh had formally challenged the validity of Koffa’s appointments, claiming they were made unilaterally and without plenary approval ... the decision to the ...

Recognising the utility of an externally supported court to hold perpetrators accountable, ECOWAS leaders approved the establishment of the Special Tribunal for The Gambia in December 2024. This ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is one of eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) recognized by the African Union (AU). Until September 2023, it had 15 member states.

On February 13, 2024, he, quite unusually, wrote an impassioned open letter to all ECOWAS Heads ... Certainly, ECOWAS formally approved the exit of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc ...

West Africa's regional bloc Ecowas has approved the setting up a special court to try crimes committed in Gambia during its military dictatorship. It is the first time the bloc has partnered with ...

West Africa’s regional bloc, Ecowas, has approved an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations after a nearly yearlong process of mediation to avert the unprecedented disintegration of the grouping.