Nigers President commends ECAs quality contribution in ECOWAS march towards single currency

Abstract

The President of the Republic of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, Co-Chair of the Presidential Task Force on the Single Currency within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has highly commended the quality technical contribution of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in ECOWAS’ march towards the single currency. Mr. Issoufou was speaking during the opening of the fifth meeting of the Presidential Task Force on the ECOWAS Single Currency Program held in Accra, Ghana, where the West African leaders reaffirmed their political will to meet the ECOWAS single currency program deadline by 2020. According to Mr. Issoufou, the study helped ECOWAS in drawing a new roadmap that is certainly leading us towards the creation of a single currency in 2020.