This new development underlines the hardline stance of the three junta-led governments with regard to their relationship with ECOWAS.
Forty-one days after being sworn in as the President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu has been selected as the new chairman of ECOWAS, an economic and political union of 15 West African countries.
Following its latest coup, Mali has been removed from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), without any trade sanctions, after the recently-instated President Colonel Assimi Goïta failed to attend the summit this past weekend.
Regional leaders fly into Monrovia to help broker a solution to the political impasse. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is accused of meddling by her own party.
