Tag: ECOWAS

The ECOWAS leaders are self-righteous politicians adept at making a scapegoat of some states whose interests that do not align ...

"If you take ECOWAS aside, other people will react, those who are outside of our control. I am the one ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and ECOWAS Heads of Government Should ECOWAS and Nigeria stay out of Niger then? Not necessarily. ...

The AU resolved “…to immediately suspend the participation of the Republic of Niger from all activities of the AU."

In a televised broadcast on Saturday, he said the junta had no ambition to confiscate power, adding that the transition ...

“Neither the army nor the people of Niger want war, but we will resist any manifestation of it."

Coups in Africa. Picture credit: Souleymane Camara/Reuters/Council on Foreign Relations They have effectively drawn an iron curtain and uninterrupted chain ...

This is the second time Mr Abubakar is visiting Niger since the 26 July coup.

Muhammadu Sanusi II, Abdrahmane Tchiani, Niger Republic coup leader and Sultan of Damagaram, Aboubacar Oumarou in Niamey The instigation for ...

The defence chiefs will meet in Accra, Ghana for two days (Thursday and Friday) to finalise plans for the deployment ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Coup is an unconstitutional, unlawful and illegal takeover of power, so is Niger’s.  As a member ...

While increasing complaints about poor governance, escalating poverty and insecurity are often cited for the coups, a deeper factor is ...

Mr Tinubu reinforced the position of the regional body not to accept any attempt by the military junta in Niger ...

ECOWAS ordered the activation and deployment of its standby force to restore constitutional order in Niger.

“We have seen in the past few years how democracies in the West African sub-region have collapsed. It has happened ...

President Bola Tinubu speaking at the ECOWAS summit in Abuja It’s been over three weeks since the military junta led ...

The West African leaders were told that Salem had lost about 10 kilograms since he was detained alongside his father ...

ECOWAS leaders. If ECOWAS must go into Niger in the name of wanting to restore constitutional order, so be it ...

The United States recently paused certain foreign assistance programmes for Niger after the military junta overthrew the democratically elected president.

The continental bloc of African states had initially given a 15-day ultimatum to putschists in Niger to restore constitutional order.

Niger coup plotters France has been the most malevolent of colonial powers that is not ready to give up control ...

The President of Cote d'Ivoire, Alhassan Ouatarra, and his Senegalese counterpart, Macky Sall, spokes to journalists in separate interviews in ...

The West African leaders arrived at the resolution at their meeting in Abuja Thursday after reviewing happenings since Sunday when ...