Alliance together. They also have an ecowas beauty pageant where the lovely ladies of the member states, all those west african countries, they all compete in this International Pageant to try to win the regional title. Ecowas has done a bunch of stuff in west africa that doesnt necessarily make International News but its important. They hold those kind of Community Building contests of various kinds. Theyve built highways. At one point they developed regional travelers checks that you could use in all of the member countries in west africa. They also have an army and they dont use it all that much. But the contributing nations, these 15 countries in this little alliance, they have a peacekeeping force that they maintain. So this little west African Regional grouping of countries, in addition to managing trade and cultural issues and infrastructure issues in their corner of the world, they can if they need to they can also handle worse stuff. They can handle stuff that requires militar
Regional title. Ecowas has done a bunch of stuff in west africa that doesnt necessarily make International News but its important. They hold those kind of Community Building contests of various kinds. Theyve built highways. At one point they developed regional travelers checks that you could use in all of the member countries in west africa. They also have an army and they dont use it all that much. But the contributing nations, these 15 countries in this little alliance, they have a peacekeeping force that they maintain. So this little west African Regional grouping of countries, in addition to managing trade and cultural issues and infrastructure issues in their corner of the world, they can if they need to they can also handle worse stuff. They can handle stuff that requires military force or the threat of military force when those things arise. One of those things appears to be arising right now. Tonight. And its an interesting thing for that part of the world and people who live i
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