BAMAKO, Mali — West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries ...

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 ...

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried to avert its unprecedented disintegration.

"For most of its existence, ECOWAS has had to deal with the manipulation of other powers, particularly France," Otubanjo ...

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 BAMAKO ...

BAMAKO, Mali — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries formally quit the group, forming their own alliance and weakening ...

Storyline: Many people in Niger have welcomed the country's departure from the Economic Community of West African States ...

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

This will happen on Wednesday, all three countries having ignored ECOWAS's call to extend the period by six months to try to find a solution.