Go to the Content Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Your search for "Economic Community Of West African States" produced 23 items.
| 1. Nigeria is the biggest receiver of EDF funding | September 22, 2011 |
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European Development Fund money for Nigeria during the period 2008-13 is €677 million. I read with interest the article on Nigeria and its EU relationship published by... |
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| 2. EU pledges €30m in aid for Côte d'Ivoire | March 17, 2011 |
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Situation “rapidly deteriorating”, according to EU humanitarian aid chief Kristalina Georgieva. The European Union has increased its emergency aid for Côte... |
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| 3. A new wave of nationalism | January 7, 2011 |
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A wave of identity fragmentation, spanning Africa and perhaps Europe, may be approaching. Could the world be on the verge of a new period of re-ordering itself, similar to... | |
| 4. EU ups action against Côte d'Ivoire's electoral losers | December 29, 2010 |
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EU ambassadors step up support for Alassane Ouattara.
The European Union is preparing to extend its sanctions against those in Côte d'Ivoire who refuse to... | |
| 5. EU discusses responses on Côte d'Ivoire and Belarus | December 28, 2010 |
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Political and security ambassadors assess post-election crises. Ambassadors from the European Union's member states held an emergency meeting in Brussels today (28 December)... | |
| 6. EU ends security mission in Guinea-Bissau | August 3, 2010 |
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Decision follows appointment of mutiny leader as army chief. The European Union has decided to withdraw its eight security advisers from Guinea-Bissau on account of... |
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| 7. World leaders' African failure | July 1, 2010 |
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Europe must take the lead in ensuring that aid arrives to the millions of people starving in Africa's Sahel region. At the twin G8 and G20 summits in Canada this weekend,... |
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| 8. Africa and the new Lisbon agenda | March 15, 2007 |
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Forget the Lisbon Agenda (with a capital ‘A') of 2000 – all that stuff about the world's most competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010. There is a new Lisbon agenda... | |
| 9. Security chief shot dead in Ivory Coast | February 8, 2007 |
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A European Commission official was murdered at his home in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast on Tuesday night (6 February). Michel Niaucel, of French nationality, died of bullet... | |
| 10. Girls still stay out of the world's classrooms | July 14, 2005 |
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Goal: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling First, the good news: the number of children who do not go to school is declining. | |
| 11. Union to freeze finances of Liberian despot | April 29, 2004 |
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EU GOVERNMENTS are set to order the freezing of all funds belonging to Charles Taylor, the brutal former Liberian president now in exile in Nigeria. Last month the UN... | |
| 12. EU changes tune on arms in Liberia | September 18, 2003 |
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EU FOREIGN ministers look set to relax an arms embargo on Liberia so that peacekeepers in the war-ravaged west African state can receive training from European military... | |
| 13. Liberian president requested EU help with elections | July 24, 2003 |
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CHARLES Taylor, Liberia's president, asked for EU help with elections scheduled for October before his recent pledge to flee the country, European Voice has learned. But... | |
| 14. Togo poll fix fear ends EU aid plan | February 14, 2002 |
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THE EU has ditched plans to help fund elections in Togo because it believes the west African state's government is hindering their free and fair conduct. About 1.5 million... | |
| 15. EU aid to shore up Nigerian democracy | February 18, 1999 |
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Having used the stick of sanctions against Nigeria for more than four years, the EU is dangling the carrot of half a billion euro in aid in front of the African state's nose... | |
| 16. Togo may face Lomé suspension after poll | July 30, 1998 |
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THE EU could suspend Togo from the Lomé Convention guaranteeing trade and aid privileges, after summoning ministers for talks on the country's widely criticised... | |
| 17. Nigeria loves objective reporting | July 9, 1998 |
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It is good to see Nigeria's Brussels mission continuing its transparent and honest information policy in the post-Abacha era.Its latest issue of News from Nigeria gives a... | |
| 18. US urges Union intervention in Sierra Leone | June 18, 1998 |
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THE US is calling on the European Union to wake up to the spiralling humanitarian and political crisis in Sierra Leone, comparing atrocities by the ousted military junta and... | |
| 19. 28 November Development Council | December 11, 1997 |
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DEVELOPMENT ministers called for stronger political ties between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, saying high-level talks could help prevent... | |
| 20. Anger grows over Nigeria's inclusion in World Cup | November 20, 1997 |
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EU GOVERNMENTS under increasing attack for their decision to allow Nigeria to play in next year's FIFA World Cup in France will try to explain their reasoning when foreign... | |
