Senegal President Faye Just Ordered Burkina Faso To Return To Ecowas Or Else.

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In January this year, the leaders of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, gave a huge blow to the regional bloc, ECOWAS, announcing to the world that their countries were withdrawing from the bloc and will no longer be a part of the bloc. This decision was the climax of the months of tension between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso and ECOWAS. Recall that after the coups in each of these countries, the regional bloc was at the forefront with the International community in condemning them and imposing sanctions on them. Not only did ECOWAS suspend them as members of the bloc, but in the case of Niger, ECOWAS, under the leadership of Nigerian President Tinubu, imposed stringent sanctions on Niger’s economy and threatened to use force to reinstate the former President. The leadership of ECOWAS made this decision with the backing of France and the United States which were keen on seeing the deposed President, Mohammed Bazoom back to power because he was a very good ally.

The sanctions described by General Tiani, the military junta of Niger, as inhumane, were indeed inhumane, because they caused hardships for the common people of Niger and even resulted in the deaths of people in the hospital. The threat of military intervention in Niger caused Burkina Faso, Mali, and even Guinea to pledge support to Niger. In fact, we can recall Ibrahim Traore saying “Any intervention in Niger would mean war in the region”. Perhaps, this was what made the ECOWAS bloc to let go of its plan to intervene in Niger militarily because it would have led to war. And then, in January the three countries chose to withdraw from the bloc. According to them, the reason for their decision was because they believed that ECOWAS had “moved away from the ideals of its founding fathers and pan-Africanism” after nearly 50 years in existence. They also added that ECOWAS, is under the influence of foreign powers, betraying its founding principles, and has become a threat to its member states and its populations whose happiness it is supposed to ensure.