The CSC previously declared on Thursday that it had ordered internet service providers to halt access to Human Rights Watch, VOA, and the BBC from Burkinabe...
I’ll never forget how Richard Quest of CNN, Christiane Amanpour, and all of the CNN bigwigs and BBC guys were all over the place, running around...
A survivor was quoted as saying that before the shootings, the soldiers accused the residents of failing to cooperate with them by not informing them of...
The United States has roughly 1,000 military personnel and civilian contractors deployed to Niger, most of them clustered near the town of Agadez, on the southern...
He said that other projects the countries benefits from are the ECOWAS regional electricity market, West African Power Pool project, which links member states to a...
Mr Leonardo Simao, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) decried the three countries’ withdrawal, noting that it would hinder...
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger were founding members of ECOWAS in 1975, but the bloc suspended all three and imposed sanctions on them following military coups...
It also appealed to the international community to continue to extend its support for ECOWAS and its vision of closer regional partnership, cooperation and integration.
‘The announcement took most observers of the ECOWAS region by surprise. In the statement, Niger junta spokesperson, Colonel Amadou Abdramane, said ECOWAS ‘notably failed to assist...
ECOWAS has imposed significant financial and economic sanctions and threatened to intervene militarily if negotiations to reinstate Bazoum hit a dead end. A military intervention appears...