The following is excerpted from a 26 March 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.
Under the framework of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), Japan Customs organized a Round Table on high-level dialogue with Customs administrations from member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) on 26 and 27 March 2012 in Tokyo.
Six Directors General of Customs of UEMOA countries, the UEMOA Secretariat, the WCO Secretary General, the WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB) in Abidjan and the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office (RILO) in Dakar were invited to participate in the Round Table to identify areas of Customs cooperation and explore the way forward for Customs reform and modernization in West Africa, based on WCO tools and programmes.
This report is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/reports/?v=1&lid=1&cid=2&id=363