🌍🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪 West African ECOWAS bloc mulls new strategy towards junta states

The West African regional bloc should consider a change of strategy as it seeks to persuade junta-led countries "to restore democracy and remain in the alliance", its chairman said.

Leaders of the ECOWAS are meeting to address a political crisis in the coup-hit region which deepened in January with military-ruled Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali's decision to exit the 15-member union.

"I urge them to reconsider the decision of these three nations to exit and not to perceive our organisation as the enemy," said ECOWAS chairman and Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. "We must reexamine our current approach to the quest for constitutional order."

He did not give further details, but the comments will add to expectations that ECOWAS is readying to ease or lift sanctions on Niger.

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