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 ...

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries formally quit the group, forming their own alliance and weakening the bloc's standing ...

West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). While the specifics are ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS ...

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 ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS ...

The report notes that the political crisis following the unconstitutional regime change on July 26, 2023, and the subsequent commercial and financial sanctions imposed by ECOWAS* and WAEMU*, ...

Ironically, the three renegade states still belong to the eight Francophone West African Economic and Monetary Union, UEMOA in French, all members of ECOWAS.

ANALYSIS: ECOWAS’ counter-terrorism plan is failing. Something must be done to change course Lack of funding and sharp political divisions have derailed the implementation of ECOWAS’ counter ...