The West African bloc Ecowas has warned that it risks disintegration and worsened insecurity after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formalised their breakaway union. The head of the Ecowas commission ...

Karin Reiss is SE4ALL Coordinator at the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Expert of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

The session of the mediation and security council of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) had originally been summoned to discuss last month's announcement from the military ...

Ghana has received 500 metric tonnes of cereals from the ECOWAS Regional Food Security Reserve to help its national response strategy following a drought that affected major grain supply areas. The ...

This is the exact sum that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Peace Fund needs to generate to be able to implement its peace initiatives for the region. Speaking at a joint ...

The joint committee made this call on Thursday to member states and the ECOWAS Commission in their draft report at the end of their delocalised sittings in Banjul, The Gambia. The joint committee ...

As the ECOWAS troops reached the capital, Banjul, Jammeh stepped down and left the country. Following his departure, 4,000 ECOWAS troops remained in The Gambia to maintain order in preparation for ...

Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara (right) and Ecowas head Omar Touray discussed possible military responses to the Niger coup West African nations have approved armed intervention in Niger "as ...

The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have hailed a newly signed treaty as a step “towards greater integration ...

Presenting the items, the ECOWAS representative in Gha­na, Charles Ndiaye, pleaded with Ghana to establish an additional warehouse in the north to store more grains for the sub-region.

The Director of Humanitarian and Social Affairs at the ECOWAS commission, Dr Sintiki Tarfa-Ugbe, made this announcement at the opening of a two-day strategic engagement workshop in Abuja on Tuesday.

Former President George Weah has penned a letter to the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Turay, raising concerns over what he describes as the recent violent attack on the Coalition ...