What is ECOWAS and what does it do? Widely seen as West Africa’s leading political and regional authority, the 15-nation bloc ...

Last Wednesday, an official announcement was that three West African countries under military rule have officially left the regional bloc, The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ...

ECOWAS also announced that its "doors remain open" to the departing nations and urged the remaining 12 member states to continue to support them. "I think that ECOWAS has taken a pragmatic ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has dismissed 135 employees in a single day, without prior notice, ...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Court on Friday dismissed a suit filed by an Ivorian citizen, Zadi ...

THE Presidency said yesterday that some West African countries that opted out of the Economic Community of West African ...

In all these countries, the biggest foreign population is Nigeria. So, Nigeria will need to strengthen our cultural ties, and ...

The bloc, however, said that it has also decided to “keep ECOWAS’ doors open,” and requested member nations to continue to accord the trio their membership privileges, including free ...

It is instructive to state that these external contributions do not determine the policies or priorities of ECOWAS. The ...

The exit of the three Sahelian states thus provides a unique and rare opportunity for ECOWAS to develop without their baggage ...

This is despite the official exit of these three countries from ECOWAS on January 29, to focus on their own bloc known as the ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are ...