President Julius Maada Bio has called on the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) to remain apolitical in their service to the country and its people.President Bio, who is the President and ...

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three countries formally quit the group ...

The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States ... including the United States and France, and turned to Russia for military support. ECOWAS has attempted to ease tensions with ...

Mali and Burkina Faso announced that they were leaving ECOWAS. They then created their own security partnership known as the Alliance of Sahel States, severed military ties with longstanding ...

In Niger, thousands of people led by members of the military regime gathered ... there is nothing left between ECOWAS and us,” Ibro Amadou Bacharou, private chief of staff of Niger’s junta ...

In a huge blow to Ecowas, Burkina Faso ... his mark in the battle for Russian influence in Africa. Mali junta chief fires prime minister in row over return to civilian rule The prime minister ...

demonstrators led by members of the ruling military government marched to the National Assembly, chanting anti-French slogans and criticizing ECOWAS leaders from Nigeria, Benin, and Côte d’Ivoire.

ECOWAS has become a target for military governments that have taken over Burkina, Mali and Niger. ECOWAS has become a target for the military governments that have taken over Burkina, Mali and ...

The military governments of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have withdrawn from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The formal withdrawal was announced by the Nigeria-based ...