West Africa regional bloc approves exit timeline for 3 coup-hit nations

West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS approved Sunday an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations after a nearly yearlong process of mediation to avert the unprecedented disintegration of the grouping.In a first in the 15-nation bloc’s nearly 50 years of existence, the military juntas of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso announced in January that they decided…