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	Economic Community of West African States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ECOWAS is one of the pillars of the African Economic Community.
		Member states of ECOWAS are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
		The West African CFA franc (XOF), created on December 26, 1945, is currently used in six formerly French-ruled African countries, as well as in Guinea-Bissau (former Portuguese colony).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_African_States (563 words)

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		Economic Community of West African States The Economic Community of West African States is a regional group of fifteen c...
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	ECOWAS
		Charter of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in an effort to promote development and improve the welfare of its citizens, commits to the creation of this organization with the long term goal of convergence of interests, liberalization of markets, and growth of opportunities.
		ECOWAS aims to promote cooperation and development in economic, social and cultural activity, particularly in the fields for which specialized commissions are appointed to raise the standard of living of the people of the member countries.
		Travel, Transport and Communications : Free circulation of the region's citizens and the rights of residence within member states and the ability of citizens from one country to establish commercial enterprises in an other, in an effort to encourage each state to exploit their comparative advantage.
	www.geocities.com /nsafrica2/ECOWAS.html (643 words)

	The African Economic Community
		Long before the establishment of the OAU, African leaders had recognised that cooperation and integration among African countries in the economic, social and cultural fields are indispensable to the accelerated transformation and sustained development of the African continent.
		They also committed themselves to promote the economic and social development and integration of their economies and, to that end, to establish national, regional and subregional institutions leading to a dynamic and interdependent African economy, thus paving the way for the eventual establishment of the African Economic Community.
		The major characteristics of the African Economic Community compared to similar communities is that it is being established in six stages, according to the provision of the Abuja Treaty (Articles 6 and 88), mainly activities of the RECs.
	www.panafricanperspective.com /aec.htm (1273 words)

	Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
		The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional group of 15 countries that was founded by treaty in May 1975.
		ECOWAS was conceived as a means toward economic integration and development intended to lead to the eventual establishment of an economic union in West Africa, enhancing economic stability and enhancing relations between member states.
		The institutions of the Community are: The Authority of Heads of State and Government; the Council of Ministers; the Community Parliament; the Economic and Social Council; the Community Court of Justice; the Executive Secretariat; the Mediation and Security Council [established by the Mechanism] and the fund for Cooperation, Compensation and Development.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/fs/2001/4454.htm (454 words)

	Economic Community of West African States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was announced in November 2002, that the five member states of the proposed second monetary zone have postponed the date for the launching of their common currency, the Eco, from January 1, 2003 to July 1, 2005.
		West Africa's total installed electric generating capacity was 9.4 gigawatts (GW) at the beginning of 2001, the majority of which is thermal (see Table 5).
		Guinea is the source of several major West African rivers (including the Gambia and Niger Rivers) and has a hydroelectric potential (technically feasible) estimated at 19,400 Gigawatthours per year (Gwh/yr).
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/ecowas.html (7283 words)

	Economic Community of West African States -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		African organization established by the Treaty of Lagos in May 1975 to promote economic trade, cooperation, and self-reliance.
		Spain is bordered on the west by Portugal; in the northeast it borders France, from which it is separated by the tiny principality of Andorra and by the great wall of the Pyrenees Mountains.
		Many Africans have long dreamed of unifying their continent into a giant “United States of Africa.” After World War II, along with the rise of nationalism in colonial territories, there emerged a continent-wide Pan-African movement.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031927 (908 words)

	Search Results for West African Economic Community - Encyclopædia Britannica
		By the middle of the century the development of the liberated African community in Sierra Leone under the tutelage of British administration, churches, and education meant that some of its members...
		The West Indian matrifocal family is another well-known form of family organization that casts doubt on the universality of the nuclear family.
		The characteristic settlement is a concentrated village consisting of fenced-off clusters of houses (compounds) occupied by members of a lineage and their spouses.
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	Find in a Library: Economic Community of West African States' conflict management and resolution a case study.
		Economic Community of West African States' conflict management and resolution a case study.
		The prevalence of conflicts has risen since the last decade and though the Economic Community of West African States has been involved in the management of these conflicts, the efforts were marred by a number of problems.
		Bad economic and political management, the Anglo-francophone dichotomy and absence of an institutional conflict management mechanism were identified as the problems of conflict management and resolution in West Africa.
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	ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
		The Community was established by the Treaty of Lagos, which was signed by representatives of 15 West African States in Lagos on May 28, 1975.
		The revised Treaty reflects West Africa's regional cooperation experiences over the preceding fifteen years and takes into account the exigencies of continental integration as envisaged in the Treaty of the African Economic Community.
		The West African Parliament, inaugurated in Bamako, Mali on November 16, 2000, held its maiden session in Abuja, Nigeria from January 21 to 27, 2001.
	www.imf.org /external/np/sec/decdo/ecowas.htm (886 words)

	ECOWAS - Your Window To The Economic Community of West African States
		Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional organization of 15 west African nations formed in 1975.
		The main objective of forming ECOWAS was to achieve economic integration and shared development so as to form a unified economic zone in West Africa.
		Later on, the scope was increased to include socio- political interactions and mutual development in related spheres.
	www.ecowas.info (162 words)

	Economic Community of West African States six-month peace plan: Sierra Leone: Peace Agreements: Library and Links: U.S. ...
		Pursuant to the mandate of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to implement proposals for the resolution of the Sierra Leone crisis contained in the final communiqué issued at Conakry on 26 June 1997, a six-point peace plan has been devised for the early return of constitutional governance to Sierra Leone.
		In this regard, the goodwill and assistance of the international community, both financial and material, would be necessary.
		We strongly appeal to the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), ECOWAS and indeed the international community to render appropriate assistance to achieve this objective.
	www.usip.org /library/pa/sl/sl_ecowas_10231997.html (881 words)

	Online NewsHour: Liberia's Uneasy Peace \| What is ECOWAS? \| PBS
		In 1975, ECOWAS, Economic Community of West African States, undertook the difficult task of bringing economic and political unity to West Africa.
		One of its major goals was to bring together the economies of the mostly small nations, hoping the combined economic power would allow the countries to compete better than any one state could do on its own.
		Although ECOWAS has championed economic efforts, civil wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire and religious violence and political instability in Nigeria have hindered progress and presented major questions not addressed by the creators of ECOWAS.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/liberia/ecowas-background.html (585 words)

	West Africans agree on sending peacekeepers to Liberia / Group heads to meet with besieged leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The foreign ministers from Ghana, Nigeria, Togo and a top official from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are heading to Liberia to inform Taylor in person of the decision and to help arrange his handover of power and departure for exile in Nigeria.
		The long-awaited deployment is expected to quickly quell the violence wrought by the three-way civil war that has engulfed the West African nation since June.
		Peacekeepers promised by West African leaders three weeks ago were delayed by disagreements over who would fund the mission and who should take the first steps.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/01/MN289501.DTL (717 words)

	African Energy – Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		African Energy – Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
		The information in this section has either been published in back issues of African Energy and is available here as a sample for potential readers, or has been drawn from the US Energy Information Administration’s annual country reports or from another public domain source, and credited as such by africa-energy.com
		In 2001, the countries of West Africa collectively consumed (see Table 2.) 1.48 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) of commercial energy (0.4% of total world consumption) and produced 5.70 quadrillion Btu (1.4% of total world production).
	www.africa-energy.com /html/public/data/ecowas.html (7160 words)

	An MBendi Profile - Organisation: Economic Community of West African States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Treaty of Lagos, establishing ECOWAS, was signed in May 1975 by 15 states, with the object of promoting trade, co-operation and self-reliance in West Africa.
		A revised ECOWAS treaty, designed to accelerate economic integration and to increase political co-operation, was drafted in 1991-92, and was signed in July 1993.
		The revised treaty designates the achievement of a common market and a single currency as economic objectives, while in the political sphere it envisages the establishment of a West African parliament, an economic and social council and an ECOWAS court of justice to replace the existing Tribunal and enforce Community decisions.
	mbendi.co.za /cb17.htm (211 words)

	The Economic Community of West African States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) created in May, 1975 comprises the sixteen countries of the West African sub-region1.
		Throughout the 80s and until the early 90s, the region was hit by unprecedented economic crises.
		These programmes were based on policies, which included restrictive budgetary and monetary measures, exchange rate devaluation in some cases, trade and payment liberalization, and deregulation of goods, services and inputs and privatization of enterprises.
	www.econdad.org /ECOWAS.htm (344 words)

	ECOWAS News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		AS part of its efforts to bring economic integration and development in the West African subregion, ECOWAS and Spain over the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a wide range of issues includi...
		The Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas has sent a message of congratulations to President- Elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on her election as Lib...
		Johannesburg - The dues of African Union member states, notoriously in arrears, should be collected through a "community levy", says the Pan African Parliament on Friday.
	archive.wn.com /ecowasnews (912 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ghana - Telecommunications \| Ghanaian Information Resource
		Despite improvements carried out in the 1980s under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ghana's telecommunications system continues to be one of the least developed in Africa.
		Domestic long-distance communications are carried over two radio-relay systems, one that extends east-west through the major coastal cities, and another that goes north from the capital to Burkina.
		This organization undertakes numerous missions, including the promotion of research and development, improvement of communications, management of the radio frequency spectrum, and encouragement of private ownership in the telecommunications sector.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/ghana/ghana106.html (427 words)

	SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE TO SUMMIT MEETING IN MALI OF ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Under his leadership, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has acquired a new stature both in the subregion and at the international level.
		I also called on the Council and the international community as a whole to support the efforts of ECOWAS to stabilize the situation in Guinea and in the neighbouring countries.
		Together, we can make sure that the region returns to the path of peace and development to which all people aspire.
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/2000/sgsm7665.doc.htm (641 words)

	The politics of monetary sector cooperation among the Economic Community of West African States members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The author tries to explain why monetary cooperation and integration have been difficulty to achieve among member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
		Its promotion of a bilingual economic grouping in West Africa was in part an attempt to reduce France ' s influence in West Africa, so France is unlikely to allow economic and monetary cooperation and integration along Nigerian lines.
		The choice for francophone West African countries is therefore between closer ties wi th France--which has provided development aid, ensured currency convertibility, and guaranteed monetary stability in those francophone countries--and closer ties with Nigeria (which has done none of the above for itself, much less for its neighbors).
	ideas.repec.org /p/wbk/wbrwps/2647.html (487 words)

	Internet-Fraud Forum - "ECOWAS scam " (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
		The ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) was established initially on an ad hoc basis as a multinational peacekeeping/peace enforcement force, and was the first such group to be established by a regional body.
		ECOMOG teams are normally comprised of military units or technical experts from ECOWAS member states.
		In addition, ECOMOG forces have been deployed to Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone to address conflicts in those states.
	www.state.gov /p/af/rls/fs/15437.htm (490 words)

	Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		West African regional trade integration and development organisation
		This list includes people who are currently in the stated positions or who have formerly held these positions.
		Please fill in the Economic Community of West African States update form.
	institutions.africadatabase.org /data/i10762.html (175 words)

	Statement of Support for Communique on Togo Issued by the Economic Community of West African States (February 9, 2005) ...
		Statement of Support for Communique on Togo Issued by the Economic Community of West African States
		The United States fully endorses the Communiqué issued by the February 9 summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that condemned recent developments in Togo and manipulations of Togo’s constitutional process.
		The United States calls on Togolese authorities to fully cooperate with ECOWAS, the African Union, and other members of the international community and to move peacefully and rapidly towards free and fair elections.
	lome.usembassy.gov /efebruary9.html (138 words)

	SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON SECURITY SECTOR REFORM IN MESSAGE TO SUMMIT OF ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ...
		Nevertheless, some daunting challenges are still ahead. Despite the efforts of many African governments, the situation in
		is being hurt by this crisis, politically and economically. The situations in
		ECOWAS is already known as one of the most advanced subregional organizations in the developing world. We must reinforce it further, and give it real authority to deal with the principal problems facing
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2005/sgsm9682.doc.htm (224 words)

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