From the four and a half years he spent at the head of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Brou, who left his post at the end of June, would like to be remembered above all for his economic achievements. “The political crises are more visible and unfortunately tend to overshadow the great work done by all the teams,” he explains. And the 69-year-old Ivorian, a former industry minister, lists the projects he believes he has successfully completed.
Agriculture, infrastructure, energy, education all received Brou’s attention, as he worked to strengthen integration and make the region’s economies more resilient to external shocks.
To facilitate the free movement of people and goods, “matching checkpoints with accelerated border procedures have been set up between Benin and Nigeria, and between Ghana and Togo, and several others are either ready to be delivered or are under development.”
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