AU@50: Whither the State of Africa’s Aviation Sector?Friday, June 14, 2013
From 2-3 June, 2012, both Ghana and Nigeria were in grief as 180 souls unnecessarily lost their lives, prompting immense speculation and discussion about West Africas aviation sector. Regrettably, the discussions were done within a myopic context of what the disaster meant to the individual ...
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Happy Birthday, AU@50 : Time to Project Africa's Power!Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The AU celebrates its golden jubilee this week. Despite this momentous occasion, the Ghanaian media has spent scant time informing aboutnever mind reporting onthe significance of being alive to witness the fruits of five decades of hard-fought struggles to realise Africas own policy ... |
GIABA, and Why Ghana must support ratification of 2005 protocol establishing CIIB in W/AWednesday, May 15, 2013
The GIABA Meeting should remind Ghana to support ratification of 2005 protocol establishing Criminal Investigative Intelligence Bureau for W/AThe Accidental Ecowas AU Citizen:By E.K.Bensah JrIn February 2013, I wrote a piece entitled Where is the ECOWAS Sahel Strategy to Secur ... |
Communicating the ECOWAS Message(3), or A Tale of West Africa Monetary Institute's non-transparency?Wednesday, May 01, 2013
The Accidental Ecowas AU Citizen:By E.K.Bensah JrOnly this week, I had a small encounter with the Tetteth-Quarshie-based ECOWAS agency mandated to work on West Africas second currency, which will be known as the Eco.In order to expedite West African integration, the Heads of State and ... |
COMAI, or African Integration's best-kept secret?Wednesday, May 01, 2013
The Accidental Ecowas AU Citizen:By E.K.Bensah JrIf it is true that the AUC/AfDB/UNECA have been frontline intergovernmental actors facilitating regional integration, then one can also speculate that COMAI plays a secondary but important ancillary role to African integration.When you look ... |
Why we might need a West African Economic Governance Architecture (2)Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Accidental ECOWAS/AU Citizen:Despite the dominance of ECOWAS in the sub-region, the irony is that it is the Mano River Union that was first established back in October 1973 in Malema, Sierra Leone between Liberia and Sierra Leone. It would be followed by ECOWAS, which was established in May 1975 ... |
ECOWAS@38, and Prospects for a West African Economic Governance ArchitectureFriday, March 22, 2013
Long before the global financial crisis in 2008, African integration had been an important strategy by developing countries to face globalisation. The development of the regional economic communities into discrete units that can trade with each other and exchange experiences might not yet be the nor ... |
Enter the Chad Dragon in the ECOWAS-CENSAD region!Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Back in October 2011, my piece Hot Issues on the AU needing popular advocacy I or Travelling Cheaply in Africa, Southern Sudan touched briefly on CENSAD. I started off with a history of CENSAD, going on to ask the way forward.The Community of Sahel-Saharan States was established i ... |
Wanted: an ECOWAS Sahel Strategy to Secure & Protect West Africa from CriminalsThursday, February 14, 2013
The Accidental Ecowas AU Citizen:E.K.Bensah JrIn October 2012, I wrote a piece entitled Mission: ECOWAS has a responsibility to protect West Africa from Criminals. It summarized and reprised arguments from previous articles I had written about ECOWAS and its responsibility to secure ... |
Mali's Blowback and Implications for CENSAD integrationWednesday, January 30, 2013
The Accidental Ecowas AU Citizen:By E.K.Bensah JrIt is 2033, and the establishment of an African Union Authority as prescribed at AU meetings back in the early part of the naughties is a year from being officially launched.West Africa has been living in relative peace for the past 10 y ... |
When Words are Simply not Enough in MaliThursday, January 24, 2013
The Accidental Ecowas AU Citizen:E.K.Bensah JrIt has been a little over ten days since the French intervened in Mali, to halt the advance on Mopti and the capital Bamako in the southern part of Mali. It is hard to believe how that has precipitated a chain of events no-one expected, including ... |
Ghana Decides, and a Tale of Mali burning, when the UN fiddledWednesday, December 05, 2012
The Accidental Ecowas AU Citizen:By E.K.Bensah JrGhanaians are about to vote in their general elections on Friday, and so I can fully understand how distracted they might be. Suffice to say, after 7 December--irrespective of a run-off--life will go on, and other important matters like the M ... |
Pax Aufricana: Who is paying for the African Union anyway? (2)Thursday, November 29, 2012
By E.K.Bensah JrIn the first part of this three-parter originally a two-parter, I referred to a piece entitled A Stream cannot rise above its source: Financing of Africas Regional Integration. It is a five-page analysis written by the Executive Director of the CCP-AU Janah Ncube and Poli ... |
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