ECOWAS has sanctioned 19 legislators and the son of the president of Guinea, José Mario Vaz, son for the continuous failure to end a political stalemate.
The impoverished nation of West Africa has been immersed in a power struggle since August 2015, when Vaz dismissed the then prime minister Domingos Simoes Pereira.
A faction of 15 legislators in the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) has split up in support of President Vaz while the majority backed Mr. Pereira.
The sanctions, which include the ban on travel and the freezing of bank accounts, were signed on Sunday by the president of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe, current president of Ecowas.
The restrictions are aimed at eight of the 15 rebels who support President Vaz, six lawmakers from the opposition Social Renovation Party (PRS), which has supported the president in parliament, and five people close to him.
His son Emerson Vaz, a businessman, was one of the named.
The talks mediated by the Guinean president Alpha Conde in October 2016 led to an agreement to appoint a new prime minister respected by all parties, with a view to organizing legislative elections.
But little progress has been made towards the points established in the so-called Conakry Agreement.
Ecowas made the decision due to the long impasse and after the security forces prevented PAIGC members from holding a party congress.
The appointment of a new prime minister, Augusto Antonio Artur Da Silva, at the end of January was not received with satisfaction by Ecowas, who denounced "the failure to appoint a consensus prime minister", since Da Silva was appointed by decree.
