Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso leave the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Three West African junta-led states, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced on Sunday that they are leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with immediate effect.
After 49 years, the valiant peoples of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger regretfully and with great disappointment observe that the (ECOWAS) organisation has drifted from the ideals of its founding fathers and the spirit of Pan-Africanism, Colonel Amadou Abdramane, a spokesman for Niger’s junta, said.
Burkina Faso in 2022 and Mali in 2020 all experienced coups. Then, in July 2023, following the Niger rebellion, ECOWAS said at an emergency summit on the situation in Niger that it would take action, up to and including the use of military force, if the rebels did not restore constitutional order and order in the country.
“The organisation has notably failed to assist these states in their existential fight against terrorism and insecurity,” Abdramane added.
