President, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, has raised the alarm over what he described as a crisis of democracy and security in the West African sub-region.

Germany has pledged €49 million to support the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in advancing peace, ...

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters Breakingviews) - West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having served notice a year ago, raising concerns over access to justice for the ...

By Desmond Davies, GNA Special Correspondent Abuja, Oct 30, GNA – Fifty years after the creation of the Economic Community of ...

Three West African countries - Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso - have finalized their exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Another thing they have in common? All three ...

Emmanuel Kwesi Aning receives funding from D-SIP – Domestic Security Implications of UN Peacekeeping in Ghana, which is a Danish Funded Program Jesper Bjarnesen receives funding from the Swedish ...

Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister has stressed on collaboration among West African States for a greater economic and regional integration by leveraging its shared market ...

NAIROBI, July 15 (Reuters) - Growth in the 15 member states that make up the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, is likely to inch down to 5.0% this year from 5.1% last year, the ...

Kayode Fayemi says ECOWAS must undergo urgent reform to effectively tackle poverty, inequality, bad governance, and insecurity in West Africa.