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Air travel across West Africa is set to become dramatically cheaper as ECOWAS eliminates a host of taxes and charges that currently make up nearly half the cost of a typical airline ticket. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY |  West Africa is bracing for a jump in air travel demand as …

COTONOU |Xinhua | Benin’s government said on Sunday that an attempted military mutiny had been foiled in Cotonou, the country’s economic capital and largest city, after armed soldiers briefly took over state television to declare President Patrice Talon was removed from office. How did a country that was long considered …

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau | Xinhua | After Guinea-Bissau’s armed forces seized full control of state power to counter what they described as attempts to destabilize the country, senior military officer Horta Inta-A was sworn in as transitional president on Thursday. The sudden shift occurred only a day before the release of …

RABAT, Morocco | TASS | Leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which are all members of the Sahel Alliance, reaffirmed that their decision to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is irreversible and immediate. “While reaffirming the irreversible and immediate nature of the Sahel Alliance states’ …

ABUJA | Xinhua | Nigerian leader Bola Tinubu on Sunday called on West African leaders to work together to establish and sustain a regional standby force in the face of the growing security threats in the region. Speaking during the opening of the 65th ordinary session of the Authority of …

The sub-region is first to protect 30% of its terrestrial and inland water areas and 30% marine and coastal areas COMMENT | IZIAK SALAKO | Just over one year ago, the world came together to agree upon a landmark new deal for nature. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (K-M GBF) was …

BAMAKO, MALI | Xinhua | Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are no longer members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), military officials of the three countries decided in a joint statement read this Sunday in the television news of Malian television (ORTM). On the Malian side, the …

Monrovia, Liberia | Xinhua | An observation mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) arrived in Liberia earlier this week to monitor next week’s presidential and legislative elections in the West African country, the regional bloc said in a statement on Thursday. Attahiru Jega, head of the ECOWAS …

How safe is Uganda from so-called `coup contagion’? COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | In a paper published in The Journal of Conflict Resolution entitled `The “Coup Contagion” Hypothesis’, two professors; Richard P.Y. Li and William R. Thompson, popularised the expression as far back as 1975. They wrote that their “statistical …

Abuja, Nigeria | Xinhua | A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday met Niger’s junta leader Abdourahamane Tchiani and the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, a Nigerian presidential spokesperson said. The ECOWAS special envoys to Niger have returned to the Nigerien capital, Niamey, to continue their …