Under previous chairman, Bola Tinubu, the West African economic bloc faced the greatest challenges of its 50-year history.

West Africa Economic Summit (WAES), experts and policymakers made one message clear: the future of intra-regional trade ...

The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great ...

West Africa Economic Summit (WAES) in Abuja, leaders looked to the past for lessons, and to the future for bold reforms ...

Sierra Leone's president is assuming the rotating leadership of the Economic Community of West African States. Under previous ...

NiMet and ECOWAS have agreed to collaborate on improving disaster preparedness and early warning systems across West Africa.

For all the ambition that has long swirled around regional integration in West Africa, the reality has remained underwhelming ...

By Muniratu Akweley IssahAccra, July 3, GNA– The African Union, in partnership with ECOWAS and the German Development Agency ...

Three West African countries have broken away from a 15-member regional bloc that has long ensured free movement of people and goods among its tightly knit economies, further destabilizing an area ...

Reuters. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) flag is pictured during an extraordinary summit of ECOWAS to hear reports from recent missions to Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea ...

He said his focus would include building the capacity of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) to be able to meet the ...

West Africa's regional bloc needs up to $2.6 billion annually to establish a 5,000-strong security force to combat terrorism, according to one of the options being considered by defence officials ...