{"id":144542,"date":"2024-01-28T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/28\/ecowas-in-shambles-mali-niger-and-burkina-exit\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T16:01:19","slug":"ecowas-in-shambles-mali-niger-and-burkina-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/28\/ecowas-in-shambles-mali-niger-and-burkina-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS in shambles – Mali, Niger and Burkina exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three West African countries, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced their decision to break away from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with immediate effect.<\/p>\n

These countries are currently led by\u00a0militaries that seized power from civilian leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 49 years, the valiant peoples of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger regretfully and with great disappointment observe that the (ECOWAS) organization has drifted from the ideals of its founding fathers and the spirit of Pan-Africanism,\u201d the countries said in a joint statement issued on Sunday, January 28, 2024.<\/p>\n

The three countries were earlier suspended from ECOWAS following the coups and refusal to adhere to a directive from the regional body to return to civilian rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, the organization has not provided assistance to our States in the context of our existential fight against terrorism and insecurity; worse, when these States decided to take their destiny into their own hands, it adopted an irrational and unacceptable posture by imposing illegal, illegitimate, inhumane and irresponsible sanctions in violation of its own texts; all things which have further weakened populations
already bruised by years of violence imposed by instrumentalized and remote-controlled terrorist hordes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tension between Juntas and ECOWAS<\/strong><\/p>\n

At a summit in Nigeria\u2019s capital Abuja in December, West African leaders demanded a \u201cshort\u201d period of transition toward civilian rule in coup-hit Niger before they would ease economic sanctions on the country.<\/p>\n

Niger\u2019s President Mohamed Bazoum was deposed in July 2023, and the junta said it would take three years to return to civilian rule.<\/p>\n

In Mali\u2019s case, civilian rule was last in place before the first of two coups, in August 2020. Burkina Faso\u2019s elected government was ousted in 2022.<\/p>\n

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