They charged that ECOWAS has “moved away from the beliefs of its founding fathers and pan-Africanism.”
“Moreover, ECOWAS, underneath the affect of international powers, betraying its founding ideas, has turn out to be a risk to its member states and its populations whose happiness it’s supposed to make sure,” they mentioned.
Thought-about West Africa’s high political and regional authority, the 15-nation ECOWAS — shaped in 1975 to “promote financial integration” in member international locations — has struggled lately to reverse rampant coups within the area.
The international locations have had tense ties with ECOWAS since coups passed off in Niger final July, Burkina Faso in 2022 and Mali in 2020.