Defense chiefs of West African nations have proposed a 5,000-strong standby force to combat the region’s security crises at an annual cost of $2.6...

ECOWAS defence chiefs meet on a standby force meant to contain terrorism and unconstitutional change of government.

  The ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff has proposed an estimate of $2,606,695,640 per year for a brigade of 5000 soldiers as the cost of...

*Says the community needs security and stability to achieve potential WorldStage Newsonline– President Bola Tinubu has called on Heads of State...

President Bola Tinubu, in his capacity as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has called on member states to commit...

Olayinka Ajala, Leeds Beckett University This year’s summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) takes place against a...

The military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger held a summit in Niamey, the first since the coups that saw them seize power. The neighbors quit...

At Sunday’s summit in Abuja, ECOWAS designated Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye as its envoy to engage with Mali, Niger, and Burkina...

The Chief of Defense Staff, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, is currently at the African Chiefs of Defense Conference in Botswana. At the occasion...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso hope to form closer ties and move away from the wider regional group, Ecowas.