ECOWAS Final Attempt To Bring Mail, Burkina Faso, And Niger Back To the Bloc.

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In January this year, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso announced to the shock of everyone that they are withdrawing from the regional bloc, ECOWAS and they plan to establish a bloc that is a better alternative to the regional bloc. Since then, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has been trying to re-integrate these three countries into the bloc. The bloc has tried everything from imposing sanctions, issuing threats and even sending high level diplomats including Senegal President, Diomaye Faye, on a mission to bring back these three countries to the bloc. However, despite their efforts, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have refused to re-join the bloc and have even gone ahead to form a new bloc, known as the Alliance of the Sahel State, AES. The question is “why is ECOWAS so desperate to win them back? And, what new measures is the ECOWAS bloc attempting to implement to bring Mail, Niger and Burkina Faso back to the bloc? Let’s find out.

As we said at the beginning of the video, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso formally withdrew from the regional bloc earlier this year after months long tension between both parties. According to the military juntas, their decision to withdraw stemmed from the fact that ECOWAS has moved away from the ideals of its founding fathers and pan-Africanism” after nearly 50 years in existence. They also stated that the regional bloc is under the influence of foreign powers, and has betrayed its founding principles, and has become a threat to its member states and its populations whose happiness it is supposed to ensure. However instead of letting these three countries go, the regional bloc has been attempting to win them back. The question is why? How important is Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to ECOWAS? Well, ECOWAS’s actions since the three countries announced their intention speak of desperation and says how important Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso is to the regional bloc. However, more importantly it says that their withdrawal from the bloc could lead to its disintegration.