Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso were to officially quit the West African bloc Ecowas Wednesday, severing ties after years of ...

President Trump’s reversal on a spending freeze. The White House yesterday walked back President Trump’s order to freeze ...

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed's remarks to the Security Council open debate on "Maintenance of ...

More than a century later, on April 14, 1979, the rice riot occurred, just when the country's economy was growing at an astronomical level from an annual rate of about two percent in 1961 to its ...

With such a change, the country has become a part of the tourist’s map for Africa. Also ... Before this change, Ghana was visa-free to mainly ECOWAS members. Although Ghana recently joined the ranks ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

A former president of the Nigerian Union of Traders of Ghana, Chief Chukwuemeka Nnaji, has tasked member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on maintaining the ...

Widely seen as West Africa's leading political and regional authority, the 15-nation ECOWAS was formed in 1975 to "promote ...

The three military-led West African nations—Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso—have formally withdrawn from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In a statement on Wednesday ...

They have also said that they will allow freedom of movement for ECOWAS member-state citizens within their territories, though they reserve the right to refuse entry to any ECOWAS nationals they ...