{"id":1801,"date":"2018-02-20T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:36:48","slug":"moroccos-accession-to-ecowas-building-bridges-or-rocking-the-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\u2019s accession to ECOWAS: Building bridges or rocking the boat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after its re-admission to the African Union, Morocco announced its bid to join the West African regional organisation ECOWAS. In their 51st\u00a0Summit, held in Monrovia in June 2017, ECOWAS heads of state and government approved Morocco\u2019s application in principle but requested a detailed report on the political and economic implications of this membership. It was thus expected that the final say on this question would be announced at the next summit held last December in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ecdpm.org\/talking-points\/moroccos-accession-ecowas-building-bridges-rocking-boat\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Article originally published on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ecdpm.org\/talking-points\/moroccos-accession-ecowas-building-bridges-rocking-boat\/\">ecdpm.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after its re-admission to the African Union, Morocco announced its bid to join the West African regional organisation ECOWAS. In their 51st\u00a0Summit, held in Monrovia in June 2017, ECOWAS heads of state and government approved Morocco\u2019s application in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[470,418,472,191,471,473],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-economic","tag-ecowas","tag-membership","tag-morocco","tag-political","tag-regional-organisation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}