ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government gathered for the summit in Nigeria's capital city on Sunday, July 7, 2024, to elect a new chairman to lead the bloc for the next one year, among other ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Burkina Faso’s military government said Wednesday its intelligence and security services had thwarted a coup attempt and were actively pursuing others believed involved in what ...

The sub-regional bloc has evolved. It has changed. It had gone through different patches. As I sat with experts and stakeholders who rubbed minds at the ECOWAS building in Abuja last week on the ...

The affected Nigerians were on their way to Kaolak, Senegal, when the buses conveying them came under gun attack in Burkina Faso. The president, in a statement by his Spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on ...

First-known attack in Nigeria by the Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin armed group active in Mali and Burkina Faso.

ABUJA, Nigeria — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS said Saturday that it is lifting travel and economic sanctions imposed on Niger that were aimed at reversing last year's coup in the ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 15 Catholic worshippers were killed in a Burkina Faso village on Sunday when gunmen attacked a community as they gathered for prayers in the country’s conflict-hit ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday. The previously announced ...

West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS gave Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger six months to reconsider their departure from the group, leaders agreed on Sunday. The military juntas of the three Sahel nations ...

The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has advised three military-ruled West African nations that recently announced their exit from ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that events in Burkina Faso, where loyalist soldiers moved to disarm the leaders of a coup last week, had undermined ...