Abstract Togo, a small West African nation, has long been a case study of autocratic persistence under the prolonged rule of ...

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Federal Republic of Nigeria to immediately release a Nigerian businessman, Moses Abiodun, who has been held in prolonged pretrial detention since 2008 ...

In addition, the network recommended a revision of ECOWAS' sanction regime, particularly in relation to the Unconstitutional Change of Governments (UCG), as a tool to promote democratic governance ...

The Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Hadja Memounatou Ibrahima, has called for a strong legal framework for Artificial ...

President Bola Tinubu last week handed over the affairs of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to his successor, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, with obvious sigh of ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years under a new charter that replaces the West African nation’s ...

The ECOWAS Charter requires a one-year period before a notice of withdrawal of membership can become effective. However, while not being unaware of that requirement, ...

AES was formed on September 16, 2023, through the Liptako-Gourma Charter, ... Beyond politics, ECOWAS has facilitated trade liberalization, investment flows, and infrastructure development.

The applicant argued that his detention amounted to a gross violation of his rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other international treaties to which Nigeria is a ...

John Mahama has described the recent wave of military coups in West Africa as not just a threat to democracy but an “economic emergency”.

The Economic Community of West African States' (ECOWAS) court of justice has found the Nigerian government guilty of human rights abuses in its response to the October 2020 EndSARS protest.

The ECOWAS court orders FG to release Moses Abiodun, ... as guaranteed under Article 12 of both the African Charter and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. ...