The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Sunday the region risked disintegration and worsening insecurity after junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger made clear their intentions to leave the bloc by signing a confederation treaty.
Item 1 of 5 Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo poses for a photograph with Economic Community of West Afr ican States Commission President Omar Alieu Touray and Nigerian Foreign Minister Yussuf Tuggar as he arrives to attend the ECOWAS summit in Abuja, Nigeria July 7, 2024.
ECOWAS commission president Omar Touray said freedom of movement and a common market of 400 million people were some of the major benefits of the near 50-year-old bloc, but that these were under threat if the three countries left. "Considering these benefits, it is evident that disintegration will not only disrupt the freedom of movement and settlement of people, but it will also worsen insecurity in the region," he said.
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