ECOWAS

Ecowas, Jumuiya ya Kiuchumi ya Nchi za Afrika Magharibi ni umoja wa kisiasa na kiuchumi wa kikanda ulioanzishwa mwaka 1975 kupitia Mkataba wa Lagos. Jumuiya hii ina wanachama 15 kutoka Afrika ya Magharibi na makao yake makuu yako Abuja, Nijeria. ECOWAS ilianzishwa kwa lengo la kuimarisha ushirikiano wa kiuchumi, utulivu wa kisiasa, na mshikamano wa kikanda. Inachukua jukumu muhimu katika kukuza biashara, usalama, na uhuru wa kusafiri kati ya nchi wanachama. Pia inashiriki katika kutatua migogoro na juhudi za kulinda amani ili kuhakikisha utulivu katika Afrika Magharibi.

Katika miaka ya hivi karibuni, ECOWAS imekabiliwa na changamoto, ikiwa ni pamoja na kujiondoa kwa Mali, Burkina Faso, na Niger mwaka 2024, kufuatia mvutano wa kisiasa kati ya jumuiya hiyo na serikali za kijeshi za nchi hizo. Awali, ECOWAS ilikuwa imeweka vikwazo na kusimamisha uanachama wa mataifa haya kutokana na mabadiliko yasiyo ya kikatiba ya serikali. Licha ya changamoto hizi, ECOWAS inaendelea kushinikiza suluhisho za kidiplomasia, ikitetea utawala wa kidemokrasia na mshikamano wa kikanda. Jukumu lake katika upatanishi wa migogoro, kuimarisha uchumi, na kudumisha usalama linabaki kuwa muhimu kwa maendeleo ya Afrika ya Magharibi.

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• West-African Monetary Institute Ilihifadhiwa 28 Machi 2020 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• Official website (In French)
• WAEMU Treaty
• ECOWAS Official Web Site Ilihifadhiwa 16 Septemba 2008 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• ECOWAS Secretariat Official Web Site Ilihifadhiwa 16 Septemba 2008 kwenye Wayback Machine.: includes calendar of meetings.
• ECOWAS Parliament Ilihifadhiwa 7 Agosti 2020 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• ECOWAS Revised Treaty
• ECOBANK—African banking group, present in thirty (30) countries on the African continent plus France in Europe. ECOBANK's Initial Public Offer of eight million plus shares in Accra, Ghana in Mei 2006 was oversubscribed. The listing of this IPO, landed ECOBANK on the Ghana Stock Exchange. As of Desemba 2009, ECOBANK stock is also listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange and on the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), the stock exchange of Francophone West African countries in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
• More About Ecobank
• PowerPoint presentation of ECOWAS, 2004
• Security by proxy? The EU and (sub-)regional organisations: the case of ECOWAS Archived 2010-05-31 at the Portuguese Web Archive, by Bastien Nivet, Occasional Paper No. 63, Machi 2006, European Union Institute for Security Studies