BREAKING: ECOWAS lifts 8 sanctions on Niger, gives reason


- President Bola Tinubu-led ECOWAS has lifted the ban on the Niger Republic and different armed forces-governed individuals
- Evaluation of loads of reports from the discontinue consequence of the ECOWAS assembly on Saturday indicated that eight sanctions had been lifted
- The West African bloc lifted the sanctions on the Niger Republic, Burkina Faso and Mali for 2 reasons
FCT, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu-led Economic Community of West African Relate (ECOWAS) has lifted the commercial sanctions on one among its individuals, Niger Republic.
The resolution became reportedly made on the assembly of the West African bloc leaders in Abuja on Sunday, February 24, citing humanitarian concerns.

Portray Credit: Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Source: Twitter
The reach became disclosed in a tweet by TRT Afrika, with the caption, “ECOWAS lifts sanctions on Niger and Guinea on ‘humanitarian’ grounds. The sanctions had been imposed following armed forces coups in the countries.”
Eight financial sanctions lifted are:
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- The closure of borders, along with land and air, between the Niger Republic and ECOWAS has been suspended.
- The no-flight zone of the overall commercial flights to and fro the Niger Republic instituted by ECOWAS has furthermore been lifted.
- Furthermore, all commercial and financial transactions between the ECOWAS member and Niger Republic had been suspended.
- The West African bloc furthermore suspended freezing all carrier transactions, and vitality transactions had been lifted.
- It furthermore lifted the freezing of the Niger Republic resources in all ECOWAS central banks
- Accounts of all Niger Republic’s articulate enterprises and parastatals in commercial banks occupy furthermore been lifted.
- The suspension of the neighbouring nation from all financial aid and transactions with financial institutions had been furthermore cancelled.
- The bloc furthermore listed the scurry bans on armed forces officials and their households serious about the coup, as properly as of us that permitted to take positions under the armed forces authorities
The NTA, in one other tweet, said the actions on the Niger Republic and others had been lifted “to have negotiation and dialogue with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger on design to proceed ECOWAS.”
Listed right here are the TRT Afrika and NTA tweets:
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Prophecy predicts armed forces takeover in two ECOWAS countries
Legit.ng earlier reported that Primate Elija Ayodele, the favored political prophet and religious chief of the INRI Evangelical Non secular Church, has predicted that more coups would happen in Africa soon.
In a video released on his Twitter page on Friday, the religious chief said two ECOWAS countries and one in Central Africa would soon be struck.
Per the clerics, Cameroun and Togo would possibly perhaps possibly be affected in West Africa, whereas Equatorial Guinea would possibly perhaps possibly be struck in Central Africa.
Source: Legit.ng