{"id":12906,"date":"2024-01-28T15:59:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12906"},"modified":"2024-01-28T15:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:59:31","slug":"burkina-faso-mali-and-niger-to-leave-ecowas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/burkina-faso-mali-and-niger-to-leave-ecowas\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to Leave ECOWAS\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced Sunday they would be leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) &#8220;without delay&#8221;, citing the injustice of sanctions ECOWAS levied on each country following takeovers by military juntas.<\/p>\n<p>The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced Sunday their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the three Sahel nations issued a statement saying it was a &#8220;sovereign decision&#8221; to leave the Economic Community of West African States &#8220;without delay&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Struggling with jihadist violence and poverty, the regimes have had tense ties with ECOWAS since coups took place in Niger last July, Burkina Faso in 2022 and Mali in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>All three were suspended from ECOWAS with Niger and Mali facing heavy sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>They have hardened their positions in recent months and joined forces in an &#8220;Alliance of Sahel States&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A French military withdrawal from the Sahel &#8212; the region along the Sahara Desert across Africa &#8212; has heightened concerns over the conflicts spreading southward to Gulf of Guinea states Ghana, Togo, Benin and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister appointed by Niger&#8217;s military regime on Thursday blasted ECOWAS for &#8220;bad faith&#8221; after the bloc largely shunned a planned meeting in Niamey.<\/p>\n<p>Niger had hoped for an opportunity to talk through differences with fellow states of ECOWAS which has cold-shouldered Niamey, imposing heavy economic and financial sanctions following the military coup that overthrew elected president Mohamed Bazoum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced Sunday they would be leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) &#8220;without delay&#8221;, citing the injustice of sanctions ECOWAS levied on each country following takeovers by military juntas. The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced Sunday their immediate withdrawal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12908,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions\/12908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}