{"id":466465,"date":"2018-02-22T03:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/22\/ecowas-presidential-task-force-reaffirm-will-to-implement-single-currency\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T03:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T03:11:04","slug":"ecowas-presidential-task-force-reaffirm-will-to-implement-single-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/22\/ecowas-presidential-task-force-reaffirm-will-to-implement-single-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS Presidential Task Force reaffirm will to implement single currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Thursday, 22 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-22<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/93159945.295.jpg\" alt=\"ECOWAS 90\" title=\"ECOWAS 90\" width=\"295\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>A map of member countries of ECOWAS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519269064_397_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Members of the President Task Force on the ECOWAS Single Currency Programme have reaffirmed their political will to meet the Bloc\u2019s single currency programme deadline by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>They also reaffirmed their commitment to ratify and implement all relevant ECOWAS Protocols and Conventions, as well as the gradual approach where member states, which meet the convergence criteria, can start the monetary union while other countries join later.<\/p>\n<p>This was in a Communiqu\u00e9 issued at the end of the Fifth Meeting of the Presidential task Force on the ECOWAS Single Currency Programme in Accra on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, President Allasane Outtara of Cote d\u2019Ivoire, President Issoufou Mamadou of Niger, Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, and Mr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigera, representing President Muhamadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the Task Force expressed concern over the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and called on the African Union to put in place a mechanism to move towards the peaceful resolution of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The Accra meeting, which comes four months after the last one in Niamey, Niger on October 24, 2017, was to review the progress made by the Task Force, co-chaired by President Akufo-Addo and Nigerien leader Issoufou Mamadou, on the roadmap to attain the single currency for the region by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 50 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Thursday, 22 February 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2018-02-22 A map of member countries of ECOWAS Members of the President Task Force on the ECOWAS Single Currency Programme have reaffirmed their political will to meet the Bloc\u2019s single currency programme deadline by 2020. 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