The West African regional bloc ECOWAS said this past weekend it was lifting sanctions it had imposed on Niger, Mali and Guinea following military takeovers in those countries, but which failed to have their desired impact, another sign of the bloc’s waning influence.
After two years of war in Ukraine, there have been no winners, and it has become increasingly hard to imagine how there will be, especially as the potential for an end to the fighting, to say nothing of a sustainable peace, seems just as far away as it was two years ago.
Somalia announced it had signed a defense and economic cooperation deal with Turkey, as the fallout from Ethiopia’s agreement last month with the breakaway region of Somaliland continues.
