has a destabilising impact.

The military juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger cancelled military agreements that allowed French troops to operate on their territory, and removed French as an official language.

ECOWAS has tried to actively work on changing the label associated with the region, but has been unsuccessful. The regional bloc suspended Mali after its coup in 2021, and also suspended Guinea on 8 September 2021, shortly after a military coup

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