Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
E.C.O.W.A.S.
ECOWAS
C.E.D.E.A.O.
CEDEAO
Notes:
created by treaty signed May 28, 1975
Not same as Communauté économique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (West African Economic Community)
Communauté economique des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.
Masson, Paul R. Monetary union in West AFrica (ECOWAS), 2001 CIP t.p. (ECOWAS) introd. ("composed of the seven countries mentioned in the previous footnote [Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Cape Verde], plus the eight countries that are members of the West African Economic and Monetary Union--namely, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo")