FILE - The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries excluding Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea and Niger, pose for a group photo during their extraordinary meeting in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Defense chiefs of West Africa on Thursday, June 27, 2024, proposed a $2.6 billion plan to fight the region’s worsening security crises, a measure that analysts say though ambitious might not work due to challenges of funding and division within the regional bloc. (AP Photo/Richard Eshun Nanaresh), File)
Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaks during the ECOWAS meeting, in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, July 7, 2024. West Africa's divided regional bloc has appointed Senegal's President Basirou Diomaye Faye to dialogue with the three military junta-led member states that have left the association to try and get them back and reunite the region whose stability is under threat. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)
Omar Touray, president of the ECOWAS Commission, left, Senegal's President, Basirou Diomaye Faye, center, and Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar pose for a photo, prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting, in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, July 7, 2024. West Africa's divided regional bloc has appointed Senegal's President Faye to have a dialogue with the three military junta-led member states that have left the association to try and get them back and reunite the region whose stability is under threat. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)
Liberia's President Joseph Boakai poses for a photo, prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting,in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, July 7, 2024. West Africa's divided regional bloc has appointed Senegal's President Basirou Diomaye Faye to dialogue with the three military junta-led member states that have left the association to try and get them back and reunite the region whose stability is under threat. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)
Senegal's President Basirou Diomaye Faye prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting, in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, July 7, 2024. West Africa's divided regional bloc has appointed Senegal's President Basirou Diomaye Faye to dialogue with the three military junta-led member states that have left the association to try and get them back and reunite the region whose stability is under threat. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)
Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, third from left, first row, poses for a group photo with other West African leaders, prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting, in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, July 7, 2024. West Africa's divided regional bloc has appointed Senegal's President Basirou Diomaye Faye to dialogue with the three military junta-led member states that have left the association to try and get them back and reunite the region whose stability is under threat. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)
Liberia's President, Joseph Boakai, left, and Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, right, pose for a photo, prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting, in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, July 7, 2024. West Africa's divided regional bloc has appointed Senegal's President Basirou Diomaye Faye to have a dialogue with the three military junta-led member states that have left the association to try and get them back and reunite the region whose stability is under threat. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)
ARCHIVO - Un representante no identificado de la junta saluda desde un vehículo militar mientras los malienses que apoyan el reciente derrocamiento del presidente Ibrahim Boubacar Keita se reúnen para celebrar en la capital Bamako, Mali, el 21 de agosto de 2020. (AP Foto/Archivo)
Omar Touray, president of the ECOWAS Commission, left, Ghana's President, Nana Akufo Addo, center and Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar pose for a photo, prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting,in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, July 7, 2024. West Africa's divided regional bloc has appointed Senegal's President Basirou Diomaye Faye to dialogue with the three military junta-led member states that have left the association to try and get them back and reunite the region whose stability is under threat. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)