The restrictions were imposed following military coups in Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea over the past three years

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is lifting sanctions imposed on Niger over last summer’s military coup, the president of the group’s commission, Omar Alieu Touray, announced on Saturday following a meeting at an ECOWAS summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

A no-fly zone, border closures, the freezing of central bank and state assets, and the suspension of commercial transactions are among the sanctions to be lifted with immediate effect. According to Touray, this step is being taken “on purely humanitarian grounds” to ease the suffering caused as a result – though individual sanctions will remain in force.....More Here

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