ECOWAS: without radical changes, regional bloc will see ‘systematic disappearance’ — experts – The North Africa Post

North Africa Post

ECOWAS: without radical changes, regional bloc will see ‘systematic disappearance’ — experts – The North Africa Post

Following a recent string of military coups, retaliatory sanctions, and withdrawal of its member states, it became clear that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lacks authority, legitimacy, and effective sanction and intervention instruments, and thus, as observers warn, it must either reform or decline. Once considered Africa’s most institutionally developed regional organization, […]