Despite lingering tensions with three recalcitrant nations in the Sahel, the West African regional bloc Ecowas is the target ...

In the past few years, we have tolerated the nuisance created by the rising number of migrant beggars from Niger into the ...

The Nigeria Customs Service and the Benin Republic Customs Administration have launched SIGMAT connectivity between both ...

Despite its current crisis, Ecowas can look back on successes in integration, peace and security, and good governance.

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

ECOWAS has partnered with the West African Secretariat of Ecological Organic Agriculture to support 1,270 youths in ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced plans to implement a 25% reduction in passenger service ...

French state-owned nuclear fuel company Orano is considering selling its uranium assets in Niger. ・French nuclear company ...

Burkina Faso relies on trade with Ghana to access the sea, so it can export its minerals and cotton abroad. Onerous bureaucracy has always slowed down the border crossing. Since an insurgency erupted ...

Explore how ECOWAS is dedicated to protecting women's and children's rights across West Africa amid systemic challenges.

NIIA is Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. It was established in 1961 as a foreign policy think-tank, as an International Institute in Africa, an African Institute in Nigeria, and a Nigerian ...

Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, has warned that the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is in ...