ROAPE African Acronym Demystifier Organisation: ECOWAS

Economic Community of West Africa States ECOWAS was founded in 1975. It is a regional group of 16 countries aiming to promote economic integration in "all fields of economic activity, particularly industry, transport, telecommunications, energy, agriculture, natural resources, commerce, monetary and financial questions, social and cultural matters".&break;It's peace monitoring group for Liberia is called ECOMOG.&break;Also known as CEDERO - Communaute Economique des Etats de L'afrique de L'ouest.

Referred to in...
	Civil War and Collective Intervention in Liberia Article by Max A Sesay from Vol.23 No.67 of the Review of African Political Economy (March 1996: pp35-52)

Links to Other Sites
	Home Page: ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States - aims to promote economic activity amongst its sixteen member countries (www.cedeao.org/English.htm, 10-Jun-99)

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