Tag: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Presidents Adama Barrow of the Gambia and Alassane Ouattara of Cote D’ Ivoire also attended the dinner.

Mr Barrow defeated dictator Yahya Jammeh in 2016 to become the country’s third president, but Mr Jammeh had declined to ...

The NBS said total trade increased by 10.43 per cent in the third quarter, compared to the second quarter, and ...

GIABA had said ISWAP moved about N18 billion ($36m) generated from trading and taxing communities in the Lake Chad region ...

The former president noted that the team had so far met with most of the Gambian candidates.

The organisation said slow FX reforms and uncertainties regarding the ability to repatriate foreign funds have discouraged new capital inflows.

The U.S. will partner Nigeria to change past exploitative approach, Mr Blinken says.

In a region already facing rampant piracy, the pillaging of fish stocks by industrial operators must be stopped.

The imposition of the sanctions is the bloc’s toughest response yet to a run of military takeovers.

The organisers said the webinar is designed to interrogate the role of ECOWAS in addressing the decline of democracy in ...

“The reshuffle is just another step towards sanitising in the system,” the CGI said.

The ECOWAS Court holds that the civil society group is not competent to question the admission of Morocco, a country ...

The suspect allegedly collected N3.5 million from each of her victims before issuing them with fake ECOWAS online appointment letters

West and Central Africa has seen four coups since last year.

In Guinea, the coup against Alpha Conde was organised by Lt-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who he had appointed as head of ...

Soldiers in the West African country of Guinea overthrew the civilian government, while the continent was still savouring its Zambian ...

“The unconstitutional seizure of power in any shape or form is simply unacceptable – four coups within the past few ...

The ECOWAS mission would be led by Ghanaian Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey with representatives from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and ...

ECOWAS Court dismisses Cape Verde’s request for the reversal of an earlier judgment that ordered the release of a controversial ...

In 2017, African leaders adopted the “AU Master Roadmap (AUMR) of Practical Steps to Silencing the Guns in Africa by ...

A third discernible foreign policy shift was the April 27 appeal by Buhari to the United States to moves its ...

With the proliferation of arms among rogue elements, the military cannot prevail without the country potentially dissolving into fragments.

The funding which will be allocated to humanitarian projects in eight beneficiary countries.

Mr Buhari also appointed 14 other members of the board of NHRC.

The verdict is in sharp contrast to Monday's judgment of the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West ...