Nigeria's regional trade dominance is hampered by infrastructure and policy issues. The 2025 West Africa Economic Summit (WAES) highlighted the need for ...

“While exiting Ecowas without an agreement would end the free movement of people, goods, and services with non- WAEMU members like Nigeria, Guinea, and Ghana, their continued membership in WAEMU ...

West Africa Economic Summit (WAES), experts and policymakers made one message clear: the future of intra-regional trade ...

An IMF study tests Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) across West and Central Africa, revealing stronger price convergence in ...

WAEMU members’ trade openness, integration into global value chains (GVCs), and export diversification remain limited. Tariffs, non-tariff measures (NTMs, obstacles to trade that arise mainly from ...

3 ECOWAS, or Economic Community of West African States, is composed of the seven countries mentioned in the first footnote, plus the eight countries that are members of the West African Economic and ...

What happens now? Although ECOWAS has said it would leave the doors open for the three nations to continue to enjoy benefits as other bloc members do, the three junta-led countries are launching ...

In partnership with the ECOWAS Commission, the World Bank organized a 2-day regional workshop in Dakar on the 8th and 9th of October 2024. Like many customs unions, ECOWAS and WAEMU have adopted ...

West African nations imposed economic and travel sanctions on Niger's new military leaders on Sunday, threatening to use force if they fail to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum within a week.

Hotel group founder Bally also criticised the fact that these sanctions, by primarily affecting the formal economy (the informal sector always finds ways of circumventing them), also run counter to ...

On 14 January, huge crowds gathered in Mali’s capital Bamako and other towns to denounce sanctions imposed on the country by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and West African ...