Nigerian President Bola Tinubu led the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for just under two years as its ...

On Sunday, June 22, 2025, the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, under whose stewardship ECOWAS marked the Golden ...

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

Sierra Leone's president is assuming the rotating leadership of the Economic Community of West African States. Under previous chairman Bola Tinubu ECOWAS faced some of the greatest challenges in its ...

President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, the newly elected chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, has promised to focus on restoring constitutional order and deepening ...

West African ECOWAS bloc 'weaker' as three Sahel nations quit. Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have cut ties with ECOWAS, a key body in a region hit by coups and security crises.

The European Union' Special Representative for the Sahel, Joao Gomes Cravinho, has expressed his willingness to work to ...

Opposing alliances working together. To add insult to injury, the establishment of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) by the three renegade former ECOWAS members in 2023 openly defies the bloc's ...

New ECOWAS chair Julius Maada Bio inherits a bloc grappling with jihadist violence, military coups and a shrinking circle of ...

President Tinubu’s leadership in the regional body’s highest decision-making organ began on 9 July, 2023, at the ECOWAS summit of Heads of State and Government in Guinea Bissau. As a mark of ...