ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS said Saturday that it is lifting travel and economic sanctions imposed on Niger that were aimed at reversing last year's coup in the ...

Military chiefs from West African countries have suspended indefinitely a key meeting on the Niger Republic situation. The meeting of Chiefs of Staff from the ECOWAS bloc countries was scheduled to be ...

The federal government has intensified calls for stronger cross-border cooperation among ECOWAS member states to combat transnational crime, terrorism and other border-related challenges threatening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Damien Larbli Tchintchibidja, Vice president of the ECOWAS Commission, left, Senegal's President Basirou Diomaye Faye, third from ...

ECOWAS deploys 40 election observers to Guinea ahead of legislative and local polls scheduled for May 31. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has deployed a technical election ...

The ECOWAS Commission through the Directorate of Macroeconomic Stability and Multilateral Surveillance has organized a two-day technical committee meeting on the implementation of the ECOWAS Single ...

Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Bola Tinubu, has tasked member states of the region on fulfilling financial commitments to the regional body to effectively ...

The ECOWAS Parliament noted that ”street children, who are usually exposed to the gravest human rights abuses, are among the ...