International organisation
Economic Community of West African States
West Africa's economic community and its crisis responder -- reduced from fifteen members to twelve when Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger withdrew in January 2025.
- Abbreviation
- ECOWAS
- Founded
- 1975-05-28
- Headquarters
- Abuja
- Member states
- 12 resolved, 12 published by the organisation
- Official site
- http://www.ecowas.int
Member states
Ordered by accession. A state with no recorded date is listed last rather than given one.
A joining date is the one the source records, which may be the day a treaty was signed or the day it took effect. States that joined together can therefore differ by months here.
| State | Joined | Listed by the source as |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Verde | 1977 | — |
| Benin | not recorded | — |
| Ghana | not recorded | — |
| Guinea | not recorded | — |
| Guinea-Bissau | not recorded | — |
| Ivory Coast | not recorded | — |
| Liberia | not recorded | — |
| Nigeria | not recorded | — |
| Senegal | not recorded | — |
| Sierra Leone | not recorded | — |
| The Gambia | not recorded | — |
| Togo | not recorded | — |
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