 Now we're going to head to West Africa, where the economic community of West African states, ECOWAS, says the region risks disintegration and worsening insecurity. After military-led Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger made clear their intention to leave the bloc and signed their own treaty for the Alliance of Sahel States. At a crisis meeting of ECOWAS in Nigeria on Sunday, the Commission president, Omar Toure, said the move was a major blow.