Six of the 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)—The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone—have launched an ambitious initiative to set up a second ...

The leaders of the 15 ECOWAS member countries aimed to achieve a monetary and currency union by the end of 2020 but abandoned that timetable because the group was not ready. They were far from the ...