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Economic Community of Westafrican States ECOWAS

Members:

Benin, Burkina Faso,
Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia,
Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau,
Cape Verde, Liberia, Mali,
Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria,
Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Updated 8/2003

This cooperation was founded among 15 states in May 1975, in 1977 Cape Verde joined and became the sixteenth member. Here is the aim also to create a common market as well as harmonising the various national regulations on trade. On top of this five of the members not belonging to the CFA-zone UEMOA (Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone) decided to create a monetary union latest by 1.7.2005. Please find the link to the ECOWAS-website at the bottom of this site.

 

Exective Secretariat
6 King George V Rd.
Lagos, Nigeria
P.O. Box 12745
Tel.: 00234-(0)1-63 68 41
Fax: 00234-(0)1-63 68 22