Following recent military coups in the region, the regional body Ecowas - once considered Africa 's most institutionally developed organization - began to show signs of lack of authority and ineffectiveness. The problems within the bloc became evident when three Sahel countries, Mali , Niger, and Burkina Faso , in January declared their, creating a crisis within the group.
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have left ECOWAS, the regional bloc that sanctioned them after military officers seized power in each. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Nnamdi…
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