West Africa is facing a quiet collapse of regional order as foreign non-state actors exploit weak governance, fragile security sectors, and international neglect, new analysis warns. Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah and Russia’s Wagner Group/Africa Corps are accelerating instability across the region by embedding themselves in local power structures, using West Africa as a base for…
Dr. Paul Adalikwu, the newly elected Secretary General of the Maritime Organization of West and Central Africa (MOWCA) and other officials concluded engagements with the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA) and other stakeholders in the maritime sector including the Ministry of Transport and Aviation at the Conference Room of SLPA, Sierraloaded has reported. During his…
Accra, capital of Ghana, will host from May 5 to 6, 2022, an extraordinary meeting of the ECOWAS Chiefs of Staff Committee. On this occasion, the senior officers will discuss together the implementation of the recommendations resulting from their 41st session held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire from November 17 to 19, 2021 devoted to the analysis of…
The leaders of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has agreed on a regional strategy to deal with global warming over the next 10 years. Members of the regional organisation, in agreement with the European Union, plan to spend $294 billion (€278 billion) over the next 10 years to meet the challenges of climate…
An extraordinary meeting of the ECOWAS Commission has ended in Accra with heads of states giving extended timelines to the coup countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea to initiate processes towards the return to democratic and constitutional rule. According to the Commission, states that may fail to comply with the new timelines will risk…
Abuja, Nigeria – Wednesday, 23rd March, 2022. Former President, Ernest Bai Koroma has urged West African leaders, policy makers, civil society and diplomats to step up their acts in stemming the re-emergence of coups and the eroding of democratic good governance in the sub-region. President Koroma was speaking earlier this morning at the Transcorp Hilton…
