Despite the high cost of illegal fishing, only a third of African countries have signed the landmark agreement that will soon ...

By Tunde Oso The Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) has given $650,000 grants to ...

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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), through its West Africa Regional Coordinating Centre, in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ...

An inter-ministerial committee meeting between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire is underway in Accra to see to the full execution of ...

Nigeria led West Africa as the region's largest intra-African trading country in 2024, hitting $18.4 billion in trade last ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Republic are among 54 African countries that will be hosted in Nigeria for the maiden African ...

Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has extended congratulations to Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio following his election as Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and ...

Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, said that the country and some members of the Economic Community of ...

On Sunday, June 22, 2025, the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, under whose stewardship ECOWAS marked the Golden ...

Ali Ndume says Tinubu is encircled by “yes men” and "dependants" who can’t challenge or correct the president truthfully.

Sierra Leone's president is assuming the rotating leadership of the Economic Community of West African States. Under previous chairman Bola Tinubu ECOWAS faced some of the greatest challenges in its ...