Six of the 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)—The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone—have launched an ambitious initiative to set up a second ...

The leaders of the 15 ECOWAS member countries aimed to achieve a monetary and currency union by the end of 2020 but abandoned that timetable because the group was not ready. They were far from the ...

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. The strength of the European monetary union would come under more pressure if the inflationary crisis were to result in a protracted ...

France has monetary cooperation agreements with three African monetary areas: the West African Monetary and Economic Union (WAEMU), the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) and the ...