ECOWAS | West African leaders’ summit opens in Abuja

West African leaders are meeting in Nigeria's capital Abuja to discuss challenges facing the region, including the move by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to break away from the bloc.
The meeting is coming just 24 hours after the three countries signed a pact to strengthen economic and defence cooperation under the Alliance of Sahel States.
SABC correspondent Ajeck Mangut is live for us in Abuja.
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[@sharonjames2041]

😢AES =HOPE ✊🏿❤ECOWAS = NO HOPE ✊🏿💔

[@SaeedIbrahim-ic6fr]

We are not fool ok AEs is our Hope . Ecowas no Hope . ECOWAS is for the west not for Africa

[@sharonjames2041]

😢JUST LIKE SA=NO HOPE ✊🏿💔

[@englishtito7710]

Why they can't just join European union 😂😂😂 ECOwas😂😂😂

[@augustomundombe829]

Yes the clowns happy slaves should join their colonial masters 😂😂😂

[@samuellopesbaule5745]

ECOWAS = Economic Countries Of West Africa Stooges, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gorillamaniamnotatrollimju8408]

It's over for ECOWAS

[@samuellopesbaule5745]

Let them stay alone with their f***g colonizers! They should be banned from the Motherland soil!

[@ganioumousa1325]

Ecowas is for france

[@user-lm1ul2hw4q]

Ecowas Rip 😂

[@youngstartv8963]

South Africa rip

[@fesderi3933]

Your gay LGBT south Africa is cursed

[@abubacarjallow]

Tunibu surprised them army vehicles please

[@gpdally-tupa]

Military leadership doesn't have a great history but fingers crossed AES will defy the odds and treat the people right when the region stabilizes

[@gohuge4094]

The president of Rwanda is a military general

[@user-lm1ul2hw4q]

You 7 leaders we start joking go ask president of William Ruto Nairobi Kenya 🇰🇪 don't joke west Africa leaders

[@kagimanye1757]

Can Nigeria stay away from South Africa. We dont like them

[@augustomundombe829]

They are the problem for us all Africans... I'm from Angola TRUE MPLA ⭐

[@youngstartv8963]

No we will not

[@augustomundombe829]

I'm from Angola VIVA South Africa VIVA Captain Thomas Sankara VIVA Captain Ibrahim Troure VIVA AFRICA United without TRAITORS for MASSA.

[@viclovely7706]

Who cares about a country that is self distraughting. A crime heaven . Rape capital of the world. Top 5 murder capital of the world. HIV capital of the world. Who in their right frame of mind want to associate itself with drowning south Africa

[@fesderi3933]

Nigerians can invade the whole Sadc when it matters

[@dambalabangura2708]

😂😂😂😂😂😂