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<title>FTU appeals to Parliament to pass Transport Policy Bill</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=193246495</link>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2008 15:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Federation of Transport Union (FTU) of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has appealed to  ...  to bring sanity. He called on the ECOWAS Secretariat to collaborate with the International Transport  ...  the International Transport Federation (ITF) in the West African Sub-region to ensure the smooth operation of  ...
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<title>Africa Command: Militarising or improving US Africa policy?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=193198020</link>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2008 10:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  it keeps American troops out of Africa for the next 50 years. Statements from Ecowas (the Economic Community of West African States) officers that African countries adequately regarding Africom are evidence of additional irritations among  ...
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<title>ECOWAS Telecoms experts to harmonize guidelines on ICT framework</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=193166317</link>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2008 06:52 GMT</pubDate>
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... ECOWAS Telecoms experts to harmonize guidelines on ICT  ...  Abuja, Nigeria - Experts on telecommunications in West Africa began a three-day meeting in Praia, the  ...  and Government in January 2007 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The Acts include ICT model policy  ...
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<title>Latin America and Africa: The Need for Closer Cooperation</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=193149548</link>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2008 05:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  be encouraged within and between African countries. The Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the African Economic Community (AEC)  ...
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<title>&apos; SENEGAL: Going solar could help poor</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=193034635</link>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2008 15:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  into the national grid. Legislators from across West Africa came together in Ghana in late September  ...  also agreed to push leaders across the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to pass stronger laws to protect investors  ...
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<title>Nigeria: IAPTC - Beyond Ammunition in Peacekeeping</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=193004135</link>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2008 11:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  (APSTA) by the National Defence College , Nigeria. Going by the theme of the Conference,  ...  The conference proper was held at the ECOWAS Commission as a total of six papers  ...
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<title>Nigeria: Common External Tariff Ready Jan 2009</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192947897</link>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2008 04:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  that the much anticipated uniform tariffs for ECOWAS region will likely become a reality from  ...  of the Common External Tariff (CET) between Nigeria and other member States is almost wrapped  ...
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<title>Drug traders route out of Guinea-Bissau to Guinea</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192896216</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 19:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  is one of four countries, along with Mali, Nigeria and Senegal, in which drug mules  ...  surveillance in Guinea will be a challenge. West African officials are set to discuss this and  ...  discuss this and related issues at an ECOWAS ministerial conference on drug trafficking, to be  ...
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<title>Europe Plays &apos;Tom And Jerry&apos; on Trade</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192862532</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 16:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the majority of the members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and together with Cote d&apos;Ivoire  ...  broke ranks with other members of the ECOWAS and initialled separate interim EPAs with the  ...
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<title>Nigerians Celebrate Independence in Freetown in Grand Style</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192862514</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 16:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Chair Person of Media Committee in the Nigerian National Union in Sierra Leone. She also  ...  high-level of bilateral relations between Nigeria and Sierra Leone has been widely acknowledged.&apos; According to the  ...  hostilities, Nigeria, it should be recalled &apos;rallied ECOWAS member states in support of the legitimate  ...
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<title>Ghana: Europe Plays &apos;Tom And Jerry&apos; on Trade</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192861109</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 16:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the majority of the members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and together with Cote d&apos;Ivoire  ...  broke ranks with other members of the ECOWAS and initialled separate interim EPAs with the  ...
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<title>ACP/EU in Tom And Jerry Game</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192855572</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 15:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the majority of the members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and together with Cote d&apos;Ivoire  ...  broke ranks with other members of the ECOWAS and initialled separate interim EPAs with the  ...
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<title>Ghana: ACP/EU in Tom And Jerry Game</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192854061</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 15:30 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  the majority of the members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and together with Cote d&apos;Ivoire  ...  broke ranks with other members of the ECOWAS and initialled separate interim EPAs with the  ...
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<title>Common External Tariff Ready Jan 2009</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192808808</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 10:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  that the much anticipated uniform tariffs for ECOWAS region will likely become a reality from  ...  of the Common External Tariff (CET) between Nigeria and other member States is almost wrapped  ...
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<title>Agreement On Common External Tariff Due in January</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192804741</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 09:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the President of the ECOWAS Commission has given a definite date on  ...  the Common External Tariff for all of West Africa,&quot; he said. The President, who also spoke  ...
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