Following a meeting of the Heads of member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Lagos…
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The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, in collaboration with the ECOWAS and World Food Programme (WFP), have supported 14,694 vulnerable people in Katsina and Sokoto states.
This week, I was in Accra, Ghana for the third West Africa Citizen’s Summit organised by the civil society movement…
As the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS) continues to navigate the complexities of regional integration, three of its…
The current cost of living crisis and the resulting agitations have highlighted the need to scale up the agriculture budget.…
ASHENEWS reports that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has commenced the distribution of its $906,205 (N1,449,928,000) aid…
The Confederation of the Sahel States, which will use the acronym AES, is headed by Mali in its first year. AES regroups 72 million people in the central Sahel.
The court found Nigeria in breach of Articles 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, and 11 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, specifically on the right to life, security of person, freedom of expression, assembly and association, prohibition of torture, the duty of the state to investigate, and the right to effective remedy.
Meanwhile, the three military rulers on Saturday, July 6, formally inaugurated the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) during their meeting in Niamey, a move that indicates severing ties with ECOWAS.
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, President of Burkina Faso, expressed optimism about the new alliance. “Alongside my peers, their Excellencies General Tiani and Colonel Goita, I am participating in the first summit of the Alliance of Sahel States. This summit marks a crucial step for the future of our common space,” he stated on his X account.