Mali, Niger, and Burkinafaso have officially withdrawn from 15 economic communities (ECOWAS) in West African countries.
The blocks are the free movement of people in the region where three military government -led countries have launched, but in the region where three military government -led countries have ECOWAS passports. We requested other members to continue to enjoy welfare and privileges such as free movement. Their own passports.
“So, we look forward to their reactions with the aim of understanding where West Africa is standing in the relationship between Eco Was and these three Sahel nations.
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However, it is difficult to predict whether these three countries return to the block in this early stage.
Military leaders accused Ecoas earlier that they had imposed “inhuman, illegal, and illegal” sanctions on them after different coups.
Furthermore, military rulers believe that Eco Wass does not provide sufficient support for fighting Jihade’s violence, which has been shaking for many years.
KWAJA devices a fresh strategy to help three military governments fight local terrorism, considering that three Sahel nations could miss shares in the Intelligence report agency with member countries. He said he needed it.
“This decision to leave ECOWAS means that they are not part of the Ecowas strategies that oppose fear,” he told Epoch Times. “Now it is necessary to design a unique method, and a new relationship is designed.”
The alliance formed in September 2023 is a mutual defense agreement aimed at protecting external threats.
They also announced a unified army of 5,000 men to fight Jihadists in Sahel.
The uncertain future of ECOWAS
As with economic, safety, politics, and diplomatic results, the break from the West Africa block in Sahel is mixed.
However, withdrawal creates a gap between regional integrated frameworks for several decades, but there is an increasing concern that development can affect efforts to collectively work on local issues.
Some experts think that the future of regional blocks is uncertain, and the withdrawal of three members thinks that “weaken ECOWAS’s ability to regulate local political crisis”. Jillyabi, the founder of Wati, said.
But Kwaja doesn’t think so.
“If they (three countries) are part of ECOWAS, ECOWAS will be stronger, but if they are not there, they have four foot chairs and one seems to be broken. He said there was a way to sit on a three -legged chair.
“Eco Was feels their absence, but they don’t feel the absence of ECOWAS.”
Anyway, KWAJA believes that ECOWAS needs to do more jobs to integrate and acquire the trust of member countries so that it does not withdraw from BLOC.
Already, Ghana’s newly selected President John Dramani Mahama has been involved in AES and has announced that he will named it as a new block.
“The current problem is whether you can be with ECOWA at the same time as AES.”
On the other hand, it is unknown how military -led governments are related to other members of ECOWAS.
He also accused Nigeria in the neighborhood as a “rear base” for effort to “unstable it.” A claim that the two countries have refused.
Collaboration with Russia
The three countries have the impression that they can survive without the support of ECOWAS, but Kwaja states that “it is not considered a buoyancy economy in a way that can effectively deal with livelihood and governance issues.” Ta.
And before the official withdrawal from ECOWAS, the three countries are completely far away from the power France of the Former Falling District and are now cooperating with Russia.
However, Kwaja explained that strengthening his relationship with Russia may not be the best movement to connect and connect with Africa.
He said, “Russia has no history of peace construction and development assistance in Africa.”
Kwaja claimed that Russia has only three known history in Africa.
One is weapon trade, including weapons to Africa.
The second is to buy natural resources from Africa.
The third is the two -country education agreement between Nigeria and Russia, and thousands of Nigerians were able to study at a Russian university.
“So it means that they need to spend time to understand who they are dealing with, like Russia and Eco Was (ineffective).” Kuja said.
“Unified future”
Despite its drawbacks, local blocks have become the best political authority in West Africa.
However, critics have argued that ECOWAS reform is urgently needed, urgently needing to relieve citizens’ fears, unite, stabilize, and prevent coups.
“ECOWAS needs to re -evaluate himself from its identity, strength, and good intentions to make sure this kind of mistake does not occur,” said Kwaja.
He added, “You must be more strategic, more conscious, and more reflexive about reliable routes to have an area that suits everyone.”
One way to achieve this is that KWAJA suggests that Ecowas puts human safety on the front burner of the block policy and always tells the vision.
“Some people feel that ECOWAS has become the head of the state and the government’s club instead of promoting the interests of citizens. Ecowas should raise the unified future vision of West Africa to the next level. Kwaja said.
