ICOAST-AFRICA-DIPLOMACY-ECONOMY-ECOWAS-SUMMIT

West African heads of state, including (Front row, From L-R) Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan, Benin President Thomas Yayi Boni, Gambia President Yahya Jammeh, Ivory Coasy President Alassane Ouattara, president of the ECOWAS Commission Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma pose for a group photograph during the 44th ordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Heads of State, at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Foundation center in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, on March 28, 2014. Leaders of the 15-nation west African bloc ECOWAS meet to call for "urgent steps" from the international community to secure peace in Mali and to discuss the creation of a single currency. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP via Getty Images)