Junta chiefs 'turn their backs' on West Africa bloc, introduce 0.5% on import goods from ECOWAS nations

• Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger person imposed a caller 0.5% levy connected imported goods to money their recently formed three-state national aft exiting ECOWAS
• The Alliance of Sahel states, initially established arsenic a information pact successful 2023, is present evolving into an economical and subject national with plans for biometric passports
• The levy, effectual immediately, applies to each imported goods but humanitarian aid, which signals a large commercialized displacement successful West Africa

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering governmental parties and movements.

Despite the moves by Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), West African countries, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger person announced a caller 0.5% levy connected imported goods.

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso chiefs. Photo credit: ECOWAS
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They imposed this levy intending to money a caller three-state national aft leaving the larger determination economical bloc, Sahel Juntas revealed successful a statement.

According to Reuters, the Alliance of Sahel States began successful 2023 arsenic a information pact betwixt the subject rulers of the 3 countries, who each took powerfulness successful coups successful caller years.

It has since grown into an aspiring economical national with plans for biometric passports and person economical and subject ties.

What to cognize astir 0.5% levy imposed connected imported goods

Trouble for Tinubu-led ECOWAS arsenic Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso enforce levy connected import goods from Nigeria different nations. Photo credit: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
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The levy was agreed connected Friday, March 28, and volition instrumentality effect immediately. It volition impact each goods imported from extracurricular the 3 countries, but volition not see humanitarian aid, the connection said.

Also, the levy volition "finance the activities" of the bloc, it said, without giving details.

According to reports, the determination ends escaped commercialized crossed West Africa, whose states person for decades fallen nether the umbrella of the ECOWAS, and highlights the rift betwixt the 3 states that borderline the Sahara Desert and influential democracies similar Nigeria and Ghana to the south.

How ECOWAS' diplomacy blocks interstate wars

Meanwhile, nations successful parts of the globe buckle nether the value of interstate wars, with humanity paying the eventual price.

In Eastern Europe, Russia’s relentless penetration of Ukraine rages on, portion successful the Gaza Strip, a astonishment onslaught by Palestine’s Hamas successful October 2023 ignited an inferno of warfare with Israel, trapping civilians successful an unending nightmare.

Remarkably, specified cross-country conflicts person been avoided successful the West African subregion; Legit.ng analyses how this was made possible.

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Tinubu vows to instrumentality Mali, others to ECOWAS

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said the involvement and payment of the citizens successful Niger Republic, Mali, and Burkina Faso stay a precedence for leaders of ECOWAS.

Tinubu, who is besides the chairperson of ECOWAS, assured that diplomacy and contented volition marque the quality successful reintegrating the countries into ECOWAS.

Receiving the President of Germany, Frank–Walter Steinmeier, successful a authorities sojourn astatine the statesmanlike villa, Abuja, President Tinubu noted that the enactment of the 3 countries had been reluctant to bring retired modulation programmes with wide dates.

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Source: Legit.ng