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The Sahel-exit splits open Ecowas

Nigeria’s Tinubu presides over the regional bloc’s worst ever crisis

The break up of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) into two rival blocs is now irreversible. At an emergency summit in Abuja on 15 December, leaders formally acknowledged that Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger were to determined to quit – by 29 January.

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