Regionalism in Africa at the Present Stage

... statement was the need to expand the partnership, stepping up trilateral trade, addressing regional instability, as well as taking joint steps towards a reinstatement of their (revoked due to unconstitutional changes of governments) membership in the African Union (AU) and in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The international community perceived this statement as an emergence of a new regional association, although the “partnership” between the said nations has not been formalized so far—three months later—and therefore the likelihood of ...