The institutional and legal frameworks for financial stability in the West African Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU) have seen significant progress since previous Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) 2008. 1 reform of WAEMU Central Bank States (BCEAO) 2010 clarified respective mandates responsibilities latter Banking Commission (CBU), it strengthened CBU’s autonomy enforcement powers. A new...

The focus of this paper is the role of meridional distribution of vegetation in the dynamics of monsoons and rainfall over West Africa. A moist zonally symmetric atmospheric model coupled with a simple land surface scheme is developed to investigate these processes. Four primary experiments have been carried out to examine the sensitivity of West African monsoons to perturbations in the meridio...

This cannot be computed readily, as it varies so greatly in different areas. For example, gonorrhoea is exceedingly common in the coastal region, especially in the cities such as Lagos and Accra, but in the rural areas, it is much less common, though in the arid northern territories, especially in such areas as Kano, its incidence is relatively high. Trade routes, both the old caravan routes an...

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