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Coup fallout: Trade, security at risk as Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso exit ECOWAS

• Tinubu mum as ECOWAS adopts negotiation with departing Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger
• Nigeria, ECOWAS greatest losers – CSOs
• Kure: Nations can only pull out after serving one year notice, no withdrawal with immediate effect in ECOWAS treaty
• Shehu Sani: We lost our African brothers because of Western conditional friends
• It’s a move to pressurise ECOWAS to reduce sanctions on them, says Ogunsanwo 
• Exit plot inordinate ambition of military juntas, ECOWAS’ poor diplomacy, Keshi says 
• ‘ECOWAS countries could lose trade trans-shipment, economic revenue’
• Their exit may worsen economic fragmentation, integration problems, says Yusuf

 
The West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, for the first time since its existence, witnessed an abrupt pull out of three countries at the same time yesterday, as Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced their exit.  

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