The MNJTF has significantly broadened its operations since its establishment in 1998 and subsequent re-activation in 2015 in ...

"Nigeria must accept that ECOWAS may never return to its former unity. It should pursue flexible, issue-based coalitions — ...

Since the return of military dictatorship in  Niger, Mali and Bourkina Faso, who were originally members of the Economic ...

Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has won the backing of key political allies to be declared president for the next ...

Analysis - The political landscape of West Africa is shifting in ways that no one, least of all ECOWAS, seems prepared to handle. What began as a troubling pattern of military coups has evolved into ...

Tension is mounting after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso. Officials say a plot to overthrow Capt Ibrahim Traoré has been ...

Gen Goïta has also withdrawn Mali from the regional grouping Ecowas over its demands to restore democratic rule. Burkina Faso and Niger have also left the grouping. He first staged a coup in ...