Julius Maada Bio has stressed the importance of maintaining regional unity as the bloc deals with various challenges, ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

This development further signalled the deterioration of relations between the bloc and estranged Sahelian nations. On 28 January, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - all led by military juntas ...

Burkina Faso has been fighting the forces of the Islamic state in the Greater Sahara when it crossed in 2016 into the country from Mali and the forces of JNIM – (JAMA’AT NUSRAT AL ISLAM WAL ...

Struggling with jihadist violence and poverty, the regimes have had tense ties with ECOWAS since coups took place in Niger on July 26, 2023, Burkina Faso in 2022 and Mali in 2020.

According to Ecowas Trade Information Systems (ECOTIS), for 2022, Mali exports total $3.91 billion, with imports of $6.45 billion, while Burkina Faso export na $4.55 billion, and import na $5.63 ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Military junta leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso on Saturday ruled out returning their nations to the West Africa regional bloc whose division could further jeopardize ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso will work to minimize the negative repercussions of its withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), said Karamoko Jean ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Military junta leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso on Saturday ruled out returning their nations to the West Africa regional bloc whose division could further jeopardize ...

The coup-hit nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso were meeting on Saturday, July 6, 2024 in their first regional summit that officially sets them apart from the West Africa regional bloc after ...