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ECOWAS

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ECOWAS [ɛˈkəʊəs]
n acronym for
(Placename) Economic Community of West African States; an economic association established in 1975 among Benin, Burkina-Faso (then called Upper Volta), The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo


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Intra-regional barriers are also falling slowly through such blocks as COMESA, SADC, ECOWAS, and the respective Central and West African CFA franc zones which share common euro pegs and tariff regimes.
financial support (and temporary military support), ECOWAS initiated a surprisingly successful humanitarian intervention before handing it over to the UN.
ECOWAS became the vanguard for the UN force established several months later, and it is important as we work on these peacekeeping issues that we work very closely with regional organizations like ECOWAS, like the African Union.
 
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