Chief of Air Staff, CAS, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has said the withdrawal of the Alliance of Sahel States from the ...

Experts from the Economic Community of West African States on Monday held a meeting Abuja to finalise policies for the regional standby force’s logistics depot.The depot, located in Lungi, Sierra ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has taken a crucial step towards improving regional security by ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards ... and have created a military force of 5,000 troops. The three juntas presented their exit as ...

The ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs ... force would soon be mobilised for counterterrorism efforts, with troops from member states ready to be deployed. The force, he said, requires ...

The missions are there, and the troops, you know, from the standby force are the ones there. The activation of the ECOWAS standby force to fight terrorism is actually what we are now planning to do.

Mali's military government says it is investigating allegations that soldiers 'coldly executed' at least 24 civilians in the north of the country on Monday.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has Thursday inaugurated the second phase of the European Union (EU) funded project “Support to Free Movement of Persons and ...

The three nations are strengthening their cooperation through the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), announcing plans to create a joint military force of 5,000 troops to fight terrorism. They will ...

Nigeria’s Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has noted with concern that the withdrawal of the Alliance of Sahel States from ECOWAS has disrupted existing security frameworks ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger dealt a huge blow to Ecowas, which at 50 years old ... with former colonial power France, whose troops left the country in 2022 after more than ...