- Economic Community of West African States
Economic Community of West African States (Corporate Name)
- C.E.D.E.A.O.
- CEDEAO
- Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
- Comunidade Económica dos Estados da África do Oeste
- Comunidade Económica dos Estados da África Ocidental
- E.C.O.W.A.S.
- ECOWAS
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")
Resolution of the ECOWAS Parliament on the political and security situation in the Republic of Mali, 2012, PDF viewed online Jul 19, 2012: t.p. (Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest; Communidade [sic] Economica dos Estados da Africa do Oeste; Economic Community of West African States)
Panapress website, viewed Jul 19, 2012 (Comunidade Económica dos Estados da África Ocidental (CEDEAO))
created by treaty signed May 28, 1975