The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reaffirmed its commitment to launch its long awaited single ...

Responding, Minister Keita reminded the Assembly that since the implementation of the Economic Recovery Programme in 1986, ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has postponed the launch of its planned single currency “ECO”, it was learnt. The regional body said a new date for the launch would be announced ...

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Political challenges have been attributed for the inability of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to actualise the single currency (ECO) initiative. The initiative was first muted ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it is committed to strengthening relations with breakaway Burkina ...

At the ECOWAS summit, the implementation of the eco – the single currency due to come into effect in 2027 – appears to have been relaunched. However, nothing points to this timetable being met. In ...

The countries that make up ECOWAS are Benin, Togo, Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Guinea, Cote D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Cape Verde. Members ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. With the inauguration of the newfangled Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in the ...

Ghana wants to ditch its currency, the Cedi, in favour of adopting the Eco. Eight other countries in the region — Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo — ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have left the most important West African regional bloc due to escalating tensions over their democratic decline, leaving room for Russia to assert itself in the region.