Tag: Ecowas

14 September 2022, 6:49 PM

Ivory Coast called on West Africa's political bloc to help release 46 soldiers detained by Mali's military government, a government spokesperson ...

Mali resumes debt servicing, plans to repay arrears

6 July 2022, 5:37 PM

10 September 2021, 5:12 PM

Mali has started talks that will pave the way for the country to honour all of its missed debt repayments ...

Envoys from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the Guinea crisis arrive to discuss ways of returning the country to constitutional order.

Regional envoys to hold talks with Guinea junta over coup

by Bomkazi Malobola

A delegation from West Africa’s main political and economic bloc arrived in the Guinean capital on Friday in hopes of ...

The revolt has prompted sanctions warnings from foreign powers, which fear it will derail a promised transition back to democracy following another coup last August led by Goita, an army colonel.

West African bloc ECOWAS suspends Mali’s membership after coup -minister

by Bomkazi Malobola

30 May 2021, 11:12 PM

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday suspended Mali’s membership of the regional bloc in response to ...

Ndaw, 70, took the oath of office in front of several hundred military officers, political leaders and diplomats. Colonel Assimi Goita, who led the coup, was sworn in as vice president during a ceremony in the capital Bamako.

Retired colonel sworn in as Mali interim president after coup

25 September 2020, 8:31 PM

Retired colonel Bah Ndaw was sworn in as Mali's interim president on Friday, tasked with presiding over an 18-month transition ...

Colonel Malick Diaw, one of the junta leaders of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP), which overthrew Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,attends a meeting with representatives of political parties and civil society groups to discuss forming a transitional government in Bamako, Mali September 5, 2020.

Mali must appoint civilian government immediately, says regional bloc

15 September 2020, 5:53 PM

Mali’s military coup leaders must hand over power to a civilian transitional government immediately, the chairman of the West African ...

The ECOWAS union has closed its borders with landlocked Mali and halted financial flows amid concerns from some West African leaders the military coup could undermine their power and democratic gains in the region.

West Africa leaders say Mali junta must name a president by September 15

8 September 2020, 3:20 PM

West Africa’s regional leaders have given the military junta in Mali until 15 September to name a transitional president and ...

Nigeria's former President Goodluck Jonathan, who leads an Ecowas mediation delegation, speaks to media after the meeting with Mali's junta following the coup in Bamako, Mali August 24, 2020.

Mali junta seeks three-year post-coup transition, West Africans say one is enough

26 August 2020, 9:33 PM

The leaders of the military coup in Mali have told a delegation of West African mediators that they want to ...

Colonel Ismael Wague, the junta's spokesman of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) which overthrew Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, walks out after the meeting with Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mediators in Bamako, Mali.

Some agreement, but issues remain as West African mediators meet Mali coup leaders

by Celestine Hendricks

24 August 2020, 7:56 AM

Mediators from West Africa’s regional bloc reached agreement on certain points in talks with Mali’s military junta that are aimed ...

Colonel Assimi Goita, the junta leader of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP).

Mali’s coup leaders meet mediators seeking return to civilian rule

22 August 2020, 9:43 PM

A key meeting on Saturday between Mali's coup leaders and mediators from West Africa's regional bloc seeking a return to ...

West African mediators jet to Mali seeking reversal of coup

22 August 2020, 3:07 PM

Mediators from West Africa's regional bloc are due in Mali on Saturday for talks aimed at reversing a coup that ...

A crowd of people cheer Malian army soldiers at the Independence Square after a mutiny, in Bamako, Mali, on August 18, 2020.

Mali soldiers promise election as region seeks way out of coup crisis

19 August 2020, 3:35 PM

Soldiers who ousted Mali’s president and government in a military coup promised on Wednesday to oversee elections within a “reasonable” ...

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita poses for a picture during the G5 Sahel summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on June 30, 2020.

Mali’s opposition rejects West African leaders’ plan to end deadlock

28 July 2020, 4:46 PM

Mali’s opposition coalition on Tuesday formally rejected a plan proposed by West African leaders for ending a political crisis, raising ...

West African presidents to head to Mali to help solve crisis

20 July 2020, 9:44 PM

A delegation of at least three West African leaders will head to Mali this week to try to end a ...

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is struggling with a years-long security crisis in northern Mali, an outbreak of the new coronavirus, a strike by teachers, and political tensions.

UN calls for calm, dialogue amid huge Mali protests

20 June 2020, 5:04 PM

28 November 2019, 11:05 AM

Tens of thousands protested in Bamako on Friday demanding the Malian president resign or face civil disorder despite political concessions ...

Economic Community Of West African States flags are pictured during a Nigeria, Benin and Niger foreign ministers meeting on Nigeria's border closure in Abuja, Nigeria.

Nigeria meets with West African neighbours on border closure

by Busi Magudulela

Nigeria has met with its West African neighbours over its land border closure, with the African giant insisting on levying ...

The idea of a common currency for the West African region was first mooted almost 30 years ago in the hope of boosting cross border trade and economic development.

ECOWAS adopts ‘ECO’ as name for planned common currency

30 June 2019, 3:09 PM

Leaders of the member states of the Economic Community of West African States, known as ECOWAS, formally agreed Saturday to ...

Adama Barrow asked regional bloc ECOWAS for assistance. Picture:AFP

Regional force’s mission in Gambia extended by three months

by Reuters

9 February 2017, 1:54 PM

A West African military operation that pressured Gambia's long-time leader, Yahya Jammeh, to step down and flee into exile has ...

Adama Barrow's victory and the determination of African countries to uphold it is celebrated as a moment of democratic hope for Africa. Picture:REUTERS

Barrow returns to Gambia

by Reuters

26 January 2017, 8:51 PM