ECOWAS needs our collective wisdom, not a shared amnesia, By Owei Lakemfa
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Add us on Google Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp …ECOWAS reiterated its promise to reduce the airfares amongst its member states. But I wonder why the emphasis as regards regional transportation is not on building railways across the region and a coastal transport system, since eleven of the ECOWAS countries are along the coast. In my view, the 51-year-old ECOWAS is dozing. A dozen Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in Lungi, Sierra Leone on 19 July. They issued the usually bland communique on a single currency, supported the illegal violation of a sister country’s sovereignty, and made false declarations on the region’s political situation and democracy.
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