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Vol 66 No 6

Published 21st March 2025


Burkina Faso

Security tops the Ecowas agenda

Above all, civilian governments in the regional bloc want cooperation with the military leaders against jihadist insurgents

Through his visits to the military rulers of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in the week ending 14 March, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama may have helped thaw the froideur between the three Sahelian states and the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) bloc they quit on 29 January.

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