ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WESTAFRICA STATES (ECOWAS)

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  • ECOWAS founded in
    1975
  • ECOWAS was a Regional Group of what?
    Fifteen WestAfrica countries
  • ECOWAS aims to?
    Encourage the economic stability of member state
  • Ecowas was one of the ____ of the larger Africa Economics Community
    Twelve Regional trade blocs
  • Member states
    Benin,burkina faso, Cape Verde, Cote d' lvoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra, Togo
  • Ecowas population 
    252 million people
  • ECOWAS GDP
    US$343 billion
  • Some countries have agreements which allows?
    Citizen to move freely across borders
  • Citizen to move freely across borders using?
    ECOWAS passport and travel certificates
  • ECOWAS has a peacekeeping force called?
    ECOMOG
  • ECOMOG has
    Intervened in regional crises
  • ECOMOG hasIntervened in regional crises as the civil war in?

    Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau
  • ECOWAS progress been slowly because of?
    -Civil wars
    -political people occurred in region
  • ECOWAS proposed single currency called?
    Eco
  • Eco planned for?
    Introduction in 2009
  • ECOWAS originally founded to become?
    Single market with a single currency