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Securing West Africa: the ECOWAS defence pact

Following the inauguration of the ECOWAS defence pact at the May 1981 summit meeting of the Economic Community of West African States in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Radio Nigeria commented on 8 June: 'The significance of a defence protocol cannot be over-emphasized, particularly at a time when almost every African country is becoming more and more vulnerable to external aggression.'1 The perennial concern of African leaders and African public opinion for continental, sub -regional and national security as a paramount imperative for progress and development has been verbalized at various levels, bu…