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(Ace Ankomah) At our own table, with our own menu: Africa’s moment of reckoning – again

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Let me give you a simple, everyday example of how the 50-year old ECOWAS Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons works, in fact. To drive from Accra to Lomé, a journey of barely three hours, I need about eight different documents: passport, domestic driver’s licence, international driving permit, local insurance and cross-border cover, a health card, vehicle registration, and even a temporary import permit. Miss just one, and the journey becomes… probably faster, on the strength of other ‘papers,’ this time from your wallet! And you go through this at the two sides of the border, and all over again on your return.

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