ECOWAS
IGO
ECOWAS enters the registry in a structurally degraded posture.
PF Score
30
Authority
33
Reach
28
Under construction
ECOWAS enters the registry in a structurally degraded posture. The Sahel coup belt has stripped four member states from meaningful participation, and the oil price shock now compounds fiscal stress across the remaining membership, reducing national bandwidth to fund or staff regional commitments.
Nigeria anchor holds form; Sahel defections gut enforcement credibility.
Sub-regional peacekeeping legacy persists, but oil shock strains operational bandwidth.
Persian Gulf escalation is already generating measurable second-order degradation across African state capacity — through fuel, food, and fertiliser price shocks — before any direct military conflict has materialized on the continent.