Thursday, June 21, 2007

Towards a borderless ECOWAS by 2020?

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Even when there appears to be grandiloquent discussions on the creation of an African Union government by 2025 , the West African regional g...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

From Rwanda & Burundi With Love...

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...to the East African Community ! Well, we knew it was in the works...to the extent that Rwanda would leave the Economic Community of Centr...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Arab League Overtures to the African Union?

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Cash-strapped AU peacekeepers are to receive a boost of $1m from no less than the Arab League towards the AU's peacekeeping mission in...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

To my Visitor from Richmond, Virginia: Sierra Leone Belongs to Which RECS?

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Hi, you wanted to know which regional organisations Sierra Leone belong to. You arrived at my site. I don't know whether you got your an...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

REGIONAL INTEGRATION MONTH!!-->Changing SAARC...without Being Repetitive!

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If my initial impressions over SAARC in this blog is anything to go by, you might have gone away feeling that I wasn't too impressed wi...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Reflections on Regional Integration(II/III): COMESA Moves Forward...Pan-African Integration?

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As Africa sits a day or two away from the 34th celebration of efforts at African unity, it becomes very timely that positive and constructiv...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Reflections on Regional Integration(I)

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It's Africa Union Day this Friday 25th May. As such, it is celebrated as a holiday in all AU countries. In preparation for that celebra...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

People Power Through Mercosur Parliament?

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You have got to give it to the Latin Americans. When it comes to people power, they certainly have got it! Remember what happened with the F...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Jamaica Pooh-Poohs the CARICOM Special Visa; Whither ECLAC?

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In a post reminiscent of this one , I am re-visiting the issue of the CARICOM Special visa for the very fact that yesterday was the day that...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Heads Up! What's the EU Admitting to the East African Community?

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In my view, the EAC is the bomb! It's got a good thing going, what with a language that is unique to the countries of Kenya, Uganda, an...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Sporadic Posting

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A critical and progressive development in my personal life has spawned a period of sporadic posting. Truth is I shall be away from my comput...
Friday, May 04, 2007

The Arab World, through GCC, Gets Serious with MERCOSUR

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Looks like Mercosur is hitting it big off-late. First, it's going to be opening its parliament this month. Now, we're getting fresh ...
Thursday, May 03, 2007

Whither the European Union? Free-Trader, Egalitarian...or Hypocrite?

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The EU is going places--or at least that's what the EU would like its citizens to think. That is, judging by an opinion piece by a lawye...
Monday, April 30, 2007

MERCOSUR's Parliament, a Test of Accountability to its Citizens?

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Let the celebrations begin! MERCOSUR's first-ever Parliament will open on 7 May... at Uruguay’s Legislative Palace and in its first year...
Friday, April 27, 2007

Can You Spot the Fast-Tracker of the East African Community?

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Look closely enough, and throughout this blog even more closely...and you might think I've gone and found myself a lady from Kenya. I...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The Fight is On: SADC Competes With ECOWAS in Banking

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Last week, Metro TV , in its Newsnight programme, reported --much to my chagrin--that the government had offloaded (finally) its shares in ...
Monday, April 23, 2007

Monday Analysis : Of Subregional Imperatives and Regional Integration: CARICOM, IGAD, ECOWAS

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J'aimerais commencer en disant "merci" a winbald , le blogger senegalais, qui frequente cette-site-ci. Meme s'il y a longt...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Some of the Regions--in Brief

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APEC --Australia has put down "energy" , unsurprisingly, as the biggest issue for discussion for the next APEC summit, slated for ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

How Sport has Greatly United CARICOM

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Cricket is a boon to the enjoyment of spectator-sport by the British and the Caribbeans like no other game. When you get sport uniting peop...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

Kenya, the EAC Peacemaker

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If we were being superficial about the analysis of regional integration, we'd probably say that Nigeria is to ECOWAS , as Sudan is to IG...