These informative and well-researched studies look at the evolution of one of the world's first subregional security mechanisms, ECOMOG, the ceasefire-monitoring group of the Economic Community of ...
Serrekuna — In the recent editions of Focus on Politics, we have been trying to unravel the mystery that created confusion within the ECOWAS community during the civil war in Liberia. We are ...
COVID-19 deaths approaching 2,730,000 among 124,000,000 diagnosed cases worldwide, Nigerian cases approaching 163,000 and 2,050 deaths. The world fought World War 1 and 2 in four years each. Each war ...
Lagos — Mr. Abdul Fataou Moussa is the director of political affairs at ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States]. Mohammed Ibn Chambas is the outgoing president of the ECOWAS Commission, and ...
Nigeria's military currently ranks fourth in Africa according to Global Firepower 2023 ranking, but that’s not the focus of this throwback piece. In 1990, West African leaders established the ECOMOG ...
In the second part of this special report, Shola Lawal reviews the atrocities committed by Nigerian soldiers in Sierra Leone. She also provides the real name of Evil Spirit, the Nigerian soldier noted ...
General Arnold Quainoo, the Ghanaian national who became the first Commander of ECOMOG - the military outfit established by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) - to intervene in the ...
Solomon Gyang is unsure why he still does what he does. If he had any sense, he knows, he’d have quit this life a long while back. He doesn’t want to be where he is now: Perched on a wooden seat in a ...
In its bid to restore democracy, ECOWAS sent an ECOMOG force led by Nigerian troops to Sierra Leone to engage the rebel forces in 1997. Having threatened the coup plotters with military intervention, ...
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has appealed to the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) to intervene in the resolution of the conflict in Bawku to bring lasting ...
Borno State Government has reiterated its position on the ban of political thuggery, a.k.a ECOMOG, across all the 27 Local Government Areas, even as it said, anybody found parading as political Thugs ...