West Africa Bloc ECOWAS Offers Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso 6 Months to Rethink Exit | Firstpost Africa

West Africa Bloc ECOWAS Offers Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso 6 Months to Rethink Exit | Firstpost Africa

West African leaders met in Nigeria's capital Abuja for the ECOWAS summit on Sunday. This gathering was seen as another desperate effort by the pro-west bloc to rebuild the broken ties. ECOWAS is a 15-member West Africa’s main political and economic group. However, three nations have announced that they are no longer part of the group. They are Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, all ruled by military governments. In January this year, they announced their withdrawal from the bloc after forming their own Alliance of Sahel States (AES). At the summit in Abuja, the member states approved the official withdrawal date as January 29. But in some last-ditch efforts, they extended the timeline to July 29. The bloc hopes to use the six-month transition period to convince the countries to return. Watch for more.

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