{"id":964800,"date":"2024-07-08T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964800"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:21:10","slug":"ecowas-dismayed-by-sahel-states-breakaway-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/ecowas-dismayed-by-sahel-states-breakaway-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS nominates Senegalese president to be Sahel Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Community of West African States &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/ecowas-urges-burkina-faso-niger-and-mali-not-to-withdraw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECOWAS<\/a> &#8211; has appointed Senegal&#8217;s President Bassirou Faye as a special envoy to hold talks with the military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger following their move to leave the regional bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment was announced by the newly re-elected Chairman of the regional bloc President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria at the 65th summit of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was held to tackle the issues confronting the bloc and the region, particularly the decision by Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to withdraw from ECOWAS.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Leaders of the Sahel Alliance meet in Niger after leaving ECOWAS:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AIhDLkmyp3s?si=Upmb43ydgW4VucEi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The meeting of West African leaders in Abuja was preceded by a summit of the three breakaway countries &#8211; Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger &#8211; just a day earlier, where they signed agreements for increased defense and economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>This has further dampened hopes of their return to ECOWAS despite ongoing negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Experts indicate that this decision has major security and economic consequences, disrupting the free movement of people and goods between the three nations and other ECOWAS countries.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it impacts militant insurgency in the Sahel, which has resulted in thousands of deaths and left millions in need of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>The re-elected chairman of ECOWAS President Tinubu urged the newly appointmented special envoy Bassirou Faye, the President of Senegal to engage in &#8220;round-the-clock&#8221; work with Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, coordinating efforts with him and the ECOWAS Commission to keep them within the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders also discussed the region&#8217;s security and economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu emphasised that strong political will and significant financial resources are needed as ECOWAS looks to operationalize its standby force to combat terrorism and restore stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc is seeking over $2 billion to fund these operations.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders at the summit stressed that a peaceful and secure West Africa is key to achieving its potential.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECOWAS appoints Senegalese President as special envoy to hold talks with Sahel leaders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":964801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[796],"class_list":["post-964800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-ecowas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}