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STAFF NOTES: MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

community, proposed three years ago by Nigeria in a major bid for regional leadership, links, for the first ... Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Togo, Upper Volta, and Nigeria ... and to quiet fears that the community will be com- pletely dominated by Nigeria , by far the area's largest ...