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Top official warns of weakened regional security following withdrawal from West African economic bloc by Mali, Burkina ...
Leonardo Santos Simão, who heads the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), told the Security Council that by “renouncing ECOWAS”, the three military-led governments would be “relinquishing key benefits” including regional integration, freedom …