Tête À Tête - No Existential Crisis Despite Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s Exit, ECOWAS Commission President Says

Tête à tête - No existential crisis despite Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s exit, ECOWAS commission president says

Despite Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso's exit from ECOWAS, Commission President Omar Alieu Touray told FRANCE 24 that he remains hopeful West Africa will stay united. He highlighted the bloc’s success in creating "a single market for 400 million people" over 50 years. While acknowledging challenges, Touray emphasised that ECOWAS leaders will “keep the door open” to the three countries, even after the July deadline for potential re-entry.

Akpabio urges ECOWAS Parliament to renew pledge to build United West Africa

The President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio has urged the Parliamentarians of the West African regional block ECOWAS to renew their pledge to build a united West Africa. Akpabio made the call in his Keynote address titled: “One Region, One Dream: Advancing the Promise of West Africa,” delivered at the opening of the 2025 First Session of the ECOWAS Parliament which held in Abuja on Tuesday. Akpabio, who is Chairman of Nigeria’s Nation…

Meeting in Bamako on 22 May 2025, the representatives of ECOWAS and the AES Confederation began major discussions with a view to laying the foundations for a structured dialogue after the withdrawal of AES member states from the West African organization. This first direct exchange marks a turning point in regional relations and raises political, security and economic issues.

A "very meticulous" first step towards regional reconciliation in water droplet. In Bamako, a first mass was said on the supposed "reunification of the Sahel and the dean of regional institutions". On 22 May 2025, diplomacy played its first cards of unity in diversity. the president of the ECOWAS Commission is in Bamako to exchange with the Sahel AEMs.

Ecowas steps up anti-terror force plans amid attacks

ECOWAS reports its “regional counter-terrorism force” plans are advancing amid a resurgence of insurgent attacks in West Africa. Recent attacks in Benin and Nigeria highlight the strain exacerbated by Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso’s ECOWAS withdrawal. Insurgent groups exploit porous borders, hindering intelligence and military collaboration. ECOWAS Commission President Omar Alieu Touray stated countries are ready to contribute troops. Finance an…

DOES ECOWAS HAVE A LEADERSHIP THAT COULD HELP KEEP THE CONTINENT AND REGION TOGETHER? – Foroyaa Newspaper

The President of the Ecowas Commission has stated that negotiation is to begin for the severing of relation between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger and the rest of Ecowas for their departure. The facts are clear that if an economic and monetary union was in place the regional organization would have been so closely linked that any departure Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger would have come to realise, if they do a proper cost analysis, that they have mo…