Heads of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, began their 63rd Ordinary Summit in Abuja on Sunday without their counterparts from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
Niger ia's President Bola Tinubu, who is the ECOWAS chairman, opened the meeting around 1:00 pm thanking his colleagues for the support he enjoyed from them in the last year. Tinubu's tenure as the ECOWAS chairman expires in the course of this particular meeting, as a new chair is to emerge on July 9, but he has one obvious task before he hands over to the next chairman. The task is that of leading ECOWAS in talks over the three countries that have chosen to go their separate way.
This is in spite of the main focus of the ECOWAS summit being to discuss ways to pacify the rebelling three after several West African leaders called for a resumption of dialogue with them. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced their Sahel Alliance pact, known as the Alliance of Sahel States, last September. On the strength of the alliance, the three countries commit to cooperate in the event of external aggression against them.
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