The flag was presented to the president of Mali ... The departure of the three West African countries from ECOWAS, notably as founding members of the group since its inception in 1975, has ...

insisting that its exit from ECOWAS and the formation of its new regional bloc would be the status quo. In the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, a flag-raising ceremony at the country's ...

Flags of Ghana flutter on the day ... Mali and Niger jointly declared an intention to withdraw from ECOWAS in response to earlier sanctions imposed by the regional bloc to pressure military juntas in ...

The leaders of the 15 ECOWAS member countries aimed to achieve a monetary and currency union by the end of 2020 but abandoned that timetable because the group was not ready. They were far from the ...