Talking Points Around ECOWAS@40Monday, March 9, 2015
In the second part of our Talking Points around ECOWAS@40 , we want to use the 35th edition of Africa in Focus to examine who the beneficiaries of ECOWAS ought to be. The Ghana Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regional Integration has finally launched the ECOWAS@40 celebrations in what s ...
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“The Accidental Ecowas & Au Citizen”: A Tale Of Two African Cities And TroublesMonday, November 4, 2013
It is not every day that two significant conferences of repute that of ECOWAS, and the AU take place in the same week. Last time two meetings of this import took place was in December 2011, when Accra hosted the 7th AU Conference of Ministers on Trade (CaMoT) in the same week that ECOWAS was holdi ... |
Troubles In The West Africa Gas Pipeline: Trouble In West African Cooperation?(2Tuesday, July 9, 2013
For almost a second, it seemed like Ghana was going to have to battle out over the regional cooperation project we have come to know, love, and hate as the West Africa Gas Pipeline. If an article in last week's edition of this Paper were to believed, Nigerians were going to frustrate Ghana's efforts ... |
“The Accidental Ecowas & AU Citizen”: Mali 2012, or a Tale of How ECOWAS has incTuesday, April 3, 2012
It is hard to believe a year ago, Cote d'ivoire was headline news, and that Gbago would be hours of being captured. Comparisons are likely to abound. I would like to think they are acceptable but unnecessary and, in fact, futile. Mali is in no way Cote d'ivoire, and the situations are very different ... |
Over Libya, Pax Nigeriana has Failed ECOWASThursday, September 15, 2011
The inchoate crystallization of a Pax Nigerianais in serious danger of foundering. In 2011, Nigeria has had and enjoyed the priviledge of sitting both on the UN Security and AU Peace and Security Council -- as well as heading the chair of ECOWAS. At the Pan-African and global level, its performa ... |