Tag Archives: ECOWAS

President John Dramani Mahama, has extended an invitation to the military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to attend the official launch of 50 years of ECOWAS’s establishment in Accra. Addressing the press on Thursday, April 17, 2025, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, stated that the …

We’ve not predicted violence in Ghana’s 2024 elections – ECOWAS denies allegations of predicted violence in Ghana’s 2024 elections The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has denied allegations that suggest that it predicted violence during Ghana’s 2024 general elections, in its recent Pre-Election Fact-Finding Mission to the …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has responded to news of the exit of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger from the community. Although ECOWAS says it is yet to receive any direct formal notification from the three Member States about their intention to withdraw from the Community, the …

Three West African countries, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger on Sunday, January 28, 2024, announced their decision to break away from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with immediate effect. These countries are currently led by militaries that seized power from civilian leaders. “After 49 years, the valiant …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has observed the rise of an alliance of coup plotters preparing to defend themselves against the sub-regional body. According to Commissioner of Political Affairs and Security, Abdul-Fatau Musah, the military government in Burkina Faso is in preparation to deploy troops to Niger …

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu,  Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says Parliament opposed the proposed military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore democracy in Niger. He said that democracy must be at the forefront in Niger’s coup because the West African States have committed …

(This is a transcription of Ghana’s Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul’s address at the opening of the Extraordinary Meeting of the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff on the Niger situation.) On behalf of the President of the Republic and Commander in Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, President Nana …

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, who is also the Chairman of the Defence and Interior Committee of the House, has backed the sending of Ghanaian troops to Niger in case the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) activates military invasion. The West African …

Russia has warned that military intervention in Niger would lead to a “protracted confrontation” after regional bloc Ecowas said it would assemble a standby force. Such an intervention would destabilise the Sahel region as a whole, the Russian foreign ministry said. Russia does not formally back the coup. But the …

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President of Nigeria has been elected as the chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority held on July 9 2023, in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. President Tinubu takes over from Umaro Sissoco Embaló, President of Guinea-Bissau. …