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.

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three countries formally quit the group ...

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

Before It Becomes ECO-WAS ...

While the authorities exploiting impunity may not bear much reputational, legal, or financial cost, the burden on citizens is heavy. Instability wrought by impunity frequently spills across borders, ...

If the collapse of EAC, and now ECOWAS, teaches us anything, it is that the greatest risk ...

Vista Bank, a digital-first Nigerian lender, has received regulatory approval from France’s Prudential Supervisory Authority ...

The most visa-friendly African countries include Rwanda, Seychelles, The Gambia, and Benin, with Mauritania and Mauritius ranking 9th and 10th respectively. Nigeria ranks 6th on the Africa Visa ...

Examples include Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Guinea-Bissau ... Ghana's northern regions, which share borders with Burkina Faso, face risks of infiltration and radicalisation.

This is evidenced by the pattern of electoral outcomes, progress in intra-Africa trade, and Africa’s enhanced Africa’s voice in the global arena. Building on these gains through sustained collective ...

Guinean gold explorer Predictive Discovery emerged as ASX's hot M&A prospect after mining giants Lundin and Zijin backed a $69.2m placement.

The Nigerian passport fell by 32 places in a global passport ranking in the last 20 years, Sunday PUNCH reports. This is according to the Henley Passport Index reports collated by our ...