“It is with profound dismay and shock that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ... including the operationalisation of its Standby Force, and calls on all partners to support ...

From Sudan and South Sudan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Africa’s peace and security landscape has become ...

ECOWAS has solicited the full support of member states for the operation of its regional counter-terrorism initiative, the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF), following the recent terrorist attack on Bénin ...

The African Union (AU) – and especially South Africa – regards the AU’s nascent African Standby Force (ASF) as a means to pre-empt alleged Western meddling in Africa. It is rather ironic, then, that ...

The Committee on East African Community (EAC) Affairs has called for the creation and deployment of a professional joint force at entry points of all partner states so as to end border conflicts. The ...

In his election campaigns for the African Union's (AU) top job, new AU Commission Chairperson Mahamoud Ali Youssouf said he would advocate for significant reforms to AU crisis responses. These reforms ...

The statement reads: “It is with profound dismay and shock that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ...

Government experts from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are gathered in Abuja to validate the logistics depot policies of the regional standby force. This is coming ahead ...

Likewise, the AU has started a review of the African Standby Force (ASF), which was declared fully operational in 2016. The force is a key mechanism for rapidly deploying peace support operations ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has strongly condemned the recent terrorist attack in the Republic of ...