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Nigeria Says Ecowas Studying Ramifications of Morocco Membership

Bloomberg 11 hours ago

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The Economic Community of West African States is studying the implications of admitting Morocco following its request last month to join the organization, Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said. Morocco's request was accepted "in principle" by leaders of the group known as Ecowas at a June 4 summit in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. "The principle of course is one of non-hostility to Morocco," Onyeama said in an interview in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on July 20. "There's no enmity there that would mean an immediate and automatic negative response to such a request. What has to be looked at a bit more is all the technical ramifications." Still, Nigeria didn't send a high-level ...

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