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.Speaking in Abuja at the second edition of the African ...

Opinion - Raheem Akingbolu, who participated a recent two-day event held in abuja to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States, writes on the need for the bloc ...

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 ...

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

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 ...