Top official warns of weakened regional security following withdrawal from West African economic bloc by Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s decision to pull out of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) “even as terrorism and transnational organized crime remain a pervasive threat”, will be damaging to regional relations all round, said the UN’s top official in the region on Friday.
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