... power via a series of military coups in 2020–2023, to chart a joint course of political and economic development. The AES was announced after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger withdrew in January 2024 from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)—a regional bloc that urged the trio’s leaders to restore civilian rule in their countries.
At the opening of the Niamey summit, Niger’s military leader
said
, inter alia, that his “people have irrevocably turned their back on ECOWAS” ...
... transition leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed the Liptako-Gourma Charter, instituting the Alliance of Sahel States. This happened in the midst of economic sanctions imposed on them by the subregion’s Economic Community of Western Africa (ECOWAS) and its threats to carry out a military operation in Niger. For the three landlocked nations, those sanctions had serious repercussions, aggravating the socioeconomic situation inside those countries and fueling the growing activity of terrorist ...
... obviously illustrates their difficult search for a policy regarding developing countries, now that the traditional instruments of influence have been, to a large extent, exhausted. The story of the removal of President Bazoum from power continues amid the ECOWAS countries voicing their readiness to restore the country’s former constitutional order; we cannot yet say how dramatic this course of events will be for West Africa or the people of Niger itself. It is very likely that the radical change of power ...
... trade, addressing regional instability, as well as taking joint steps towards a
reinstatement
of their (revoked due to unconstitutional changes of governments) membership in the African Union (AU) and in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The international community perceived this statement as an emergence of a new regional association, although the “partnership” between the said nations has not been formalized so far—three months later—and therefore the likelihood of ...
France and ECOWAS have levied sanctions against Mali in the wake of the 2021 junta—however, these may be a double-edged sword in that they may bare the inverse affect
On Wednesday, 17 February 2022, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced the
end
of Operation ...
