This month, Nigeria and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Waemu) announced they would reduce their trading ...

DAKAR, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Mali said on Wednesday it was not planning to leave West Africa's currency zone while Burkino Faso indicated it would do so after they and Niger announced their withdrawal ...

BAMAKO, Mali — 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 ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lost three of its founding members on 29 January 2025. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger comprised 16% of the bloc’s population of 424 million and 7% ...

On 26 April, UMOA-Titres, a regional institution supporting the member states of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) zone with debt mobilisation on the public securities market, ...

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Adds comments Mali, Burkina Faso and Moody's, paragraphs 6-8 JOHANNESBURG, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The decision of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to exit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ...

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On 30 July, regional bloc ECOWAS banned all financial transactions between its member states and Niger following the putsch by General Abourahamane Tiani. However, the region’s central bank doesn’t ...

The decision by Assimi Goïta, who led two military coups within nine months in Mali from August 2020, to promote himself from Colonel to five-star general, speaks volumes for the political ambition of ...

The West African Economic and Monetary Union Regional Mortgage Refinancing Company (CRRH-UEMOA) was founded in 2010 to promote access to decent housing in the eight WAEMU countries: Benin, Burkina ...