To save ECOWAS from ‘disunity’, Nigeria’s 89-year-old former president Yakubu Gowon has returned to the pulpit to ask for sanctions against the rebel states to be lifted, and is pleading with them to ‘come back’.
While Nigeria is often painted as the bogeyman of the Economic Community of West African States – particularly since President Bola Tinubu’s accession to power and his muscular intransigence towards Niger – Abuja is not without its dissenting voices.
One is that of Yakubu Gowon, the 89-year-old former president of Nigeria who presided over the country’s bloody civil war from 1967 to 1970.AU Summit: AfCFTA boss discusses obstacles to free trade, defends Issoufou’s presence Coups, wars, and bureaucratic barriers at borders are stumbling blocks to implementing Africa’s free trade agreement, which is championed by the forme...More than 1.3 million Burkinabes and half a million Malians live in the Côte d’Ivoire thanks to ECOWAS freedom of movement, many of them running small...Senegal’s embattled President Macky Sall said Thursday night that his mandate as president will end on 2 April, putting to rest concerns he may prolon...
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