 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.