Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS Court of Justice has dismissed a petition by the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) to compel the Nigerian government to pay N10 million reparation each to families of 11 deceased journalists.

Africa’s dynamic youthful population and civil society will challenge autocratic misrule and strive to fulfil the continent’s huge potential in 2024.

One of the major challenges of West African states is leadership deficiency, which has often led to political instability. West Africans have attempted to solve their problems through the formation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), known as CEDEAO in French and Portuguese. ECOWAS was established in May 1975, but the people’s…

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Timi Frank, on Sunday, condemned the recent killing of Chadian opposition politician, Yaya Dillo Djerou, by state security forces loyal to President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno. The death of opposition leader Djerou followed a siege on his party's headquarters and the homes of other top…

A Consortium of civil society and research think tanks, yesterday, launched a Regional Citizen’s Dialogue Programme (RCDP) as a collaborative initiative for preventing and responding to unconstitutional changes of government in the West African sub-region.

Stakeholders have described the lifting of economic and trade sanctions, previously imposed on Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, as a good step in the right direction and urged that trading activities resume immediately

In my essay, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): Divergence and rapprochement, published, as scheduled, on this page a fortnight ago, February 14, 2024 precisely, I strongly advocated rapprochement in the crisis ...

The postponement of Senegal’s February 25 presidential election by the incumbent, and outgoing President Macky Sall, ostensibly for proper arrangements to be made for the presidential election to be held at another..

European ambassadors have called for a just international order where people around the world can benefit from peace, stability and prosperity. This was the content of a statement marking two years of Russia...

Niger has not reopened its border with Benin two days after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lifted coup-linked sanctions on the landlocked nation, local officials confirmed yesterday.

West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS, said Sunday it was easing sanctions imposed on Guinea and Mali, a day after announcing a similar decision for Niger, another country under military rule.

Twenty three stakeholders and partners specialised in agricultural trade and markets in West Africa and Chad have been empowered on data collection and reporting tools for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Agricultural Trade and Market SCORECARD (EATM-SCORECARD). The objective of the EATM-SCORECARD is to assess and track the performance of agricultural trade…