The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Wednesday officially recognized the exit of three of its former ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger is a huge blow to Ecowas ... can really bring benefits for us, that would be an excellent thing," she said. Zabeirou Issa, who lives in Mali's ...

The Moroccan Embassy in Burkina Faso informed the union late Monday that the four drivers had been freed and were safe in Niamey. “They will be brought back soon,” said Echarki El Hachmi ...

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS has formally recognized the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, after more than a year of diplomatic tensions. The latest development marks a ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the suspension of visa issuance at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, the State Department said Sunday. In a media note, the State Department’s Office ...

Urging the three countrirs to have a rethink, Musa said: “We urge our brothers in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso to remain part of ECOWAS. “We must not allow political differences to divide us.

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online ...

Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa's ... from the three countries that bear the ECOWAS logo. It said that citizens of the three countries should "continue ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are increasingly turning to Russia as an ally. The withdrawal "has become effective today," ECOWAS said in a statement. All three nations, which in September created ...

"This is ending today, there is nothing left between ECOWAS and us," he said. In Burkina Faso, thousands of people including Prime Minister Rimtalba Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo and other members of ...