Topic summary
Economic Community of West African States

Extracted from the Wikipedia article ECOWAS.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; also known as CEDEAO in French and Portuguese) is a regional political and economic union of twelve countries of West Africa. Collectively, the present and former members comprise an area of 5,114,162 km (1,974,589 sq mi) and have an estimated population of over 424.34 million.