Tag: ECOWAS
Bamako is working hard to obtain the lifting of sanctions at the Accra summit
The Summit of Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and that of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) will be held on…
The President of Niger visits Côte d’Ivoire, ahead of the ECOWAS summit in Accra
Mohamed Bazoum arrived this Thursday, June 23 for a 48-hour state visit to Côte d’Ivoire. A visit which comes as ECOWAS is holding a summit in Accra on July 3…
ECOWAS deploys a stabilization force in Guinea-Bissau
On February 1, 2022, Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco Embalo narrowly escaped a coup. The sub-regional institution decided at its extraordinary summit on March 25 in Accra to approve the dispatch…
The ECOWAS mediator for Burkina Faso, Mahamadou Issoufou, in Ouagadougou
This is Mahamadou Issoufou’s first visit to Burkina Faso in his capacity as mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). With our correspondent in Ouagadougou, Yaya Boudani…
what is the new deal for the negotiations between Bamako and ECOWAS?
The unilateral announcement by Bamako, Monday June 6, 2022, to extend the transition for a period of two years, while negotiations with the West African organization are still in progress,…
after the unilateral decision of the junta on the transition, what will ECOWAS do?
Unilaterally, the Malian junta has set the duration of the new transition at 24 months from March 26, 2022 as it has ruled the country since the 2020 coup. ECOWAS…
junta sets two-year deadline before civilians return to power
The decree signed by the head of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, was read on Monday evening on Malian state television. A step forward because at the beginning of the…
After meeting Vladimir Putin, Macky Sall says he will visit kyiv
” I will go to Kyiv declared in Accra the president in office of the African Union, Macky Sall the day after his meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.…
is an agreement possible with ECOWAS on future elections?
An extraordinary summit of ECOWAS Heads of State opens tomorrow Saturday in Accra, capital of Ghana, which holds the rotating presidency of the Economic Community of West African States. This…
agreement in sight for Mali?
An extraordinary ECOWAS summit has been announced for June 4 in Accra, with Ghana currently holding the rotating presidency of the sub-regional organization. It will be devoted in particular to…