Author: Misbahu Shehu

THE imperative for regional cooperation has never been more expedient than now when the world is engulfed in a deluge of existential crises ranging from economic meltdowns, climate debacles, hunger, poverty, terrorism, and wars threatening the collective survival of the human race. At a time when nations are still nursing the wounds inflicted by the COVID-19 Pandemic on the globe’s economy and devising strategies for mutual development, it is befuddling to contemplate the rationale fueling the Sahelian States of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso’s disingenuous resolve to exit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) which has for decades…