South Africa's Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola delivered a personal message from President Cyril Ramaphosa to Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu in Abuja, as both governments announced joint measures to protect foreign nationals after a wave of anti-immigrant attacks strained bilateral ties.
Leaders at an ECOWAS summit in Freetown signed an agreement on Sunday July 19 endorsing the Nigeria-Morocco African Atlantic Gas Pipeline, which would carry 30 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year from Nigeria through West Africa to Morocco and on to Europe; the project, launched by Morocco's King Mohammed VI, carries an estimated cost of US$250 billion
Nigeria's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Ghana's foreign minister agreed at an ECOWAS summit bilateral meeting to deepen cooperation against anti-immigrant violence in South Africa and to table 'Afrophobia' at the next African Union summit.
Ghana, a West African republic of 34 million, completed a landmark IMF debt restructuring in May 2026 after defaulting on external debt in December 2022.
West African coastal republic regarded as sub-Saharan Africa's most durable democracy, now under fiscal stress from hidden debts and a constitutional power struggle between President Faye and former ally Ousmane Sonko.
The arc of West and Central African states where military juntas displaced elected governments nine times since 2020, reshaping the Sahel's security and great-power alignments.
Soldiers arrest President Embaló as both he and the opposition claim election victory; civil society alleges a 'simulated coup,' ECOWAS suspends the country