Responding to questions from Pulse Nigeria, Barau stressed that the people of West Africa have always been one, despite colonial-era borders. According to him, linguistic and cultural similarities ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human rights activist Femi Falana (SAN) has urged the leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take advantage of the political crisis in the region to launch the “ECO” ...

The conversation around monetary reform in West Africa continues to intensify . Senegal rsquo;s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko ...

ECOWAS Commission President Omar Touray, Senegalese President Basirou Diomaye Faye and Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar arrive for the ECOWAS Summit, in Abuja, Nigeria, Dec 15, 2024 (AP photo by ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having served notice a year ago, raising concerns over access to justice for the ...

West Africa’s economic and political bloc has launched a formal push to convince three junta-led member states to shelve their joint breakaway plan, with Senegal’s president Bassirou Diomaye Faye ...