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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) / Communauté Economique Des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) /, Senegal, May 29, 1979,
Origin : www.comm.ecowas.int/sec/index.php?id=asp010579&lang=en
The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional group of fifteen countries, founded in 1975 in Lago (Nigeria). It is one of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs). RECs are regional groupings of African states organized into a legal entity by treaty, with economic and social integration as their main objective. The African Union currently recognizes eight RECs, each of which plays a key role in African integration