Vol 53 No 3 | ECOWAS Jobs for the boys 3rd February 2012 Ecowas is often dysfunctional but choosing a Commissioner to succeed Victor Gbeho is proving truly problematic The quarrel between Presidents Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso and Thomas Yayi Boni of Benin over the Economic Community of West African States is symptomatic of an organisation...
Vol 39 No 22 | ECOWAS Dinosaur encore 6th November 1998 The summit of the Economic Community of West African States in Abuja on 30-31 October made several agreements, none of them noticeably economic.
Vol 38 No 18 | ECOWAS Less than economic 12th September 1997 West Africa's economic club has won one war and begun another Charles Taylor, Liberia's new President, paid the supreme compliment: 'But for the stern commitment of Ecowas, we may still have been at war'. At its 20th summit in...