{"id":212443,"date":"2025-11-04T01:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-ecowas-boosts-trade-using-sigmat-between-cote-divoire-guinea-liberia\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:11:27","slug":"west-africa-ecowas-boosts-trade-using-sigmat-between-cote-divoire-guinea-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-ecowas-boosts-trade-using-sigmat-between-cote-divoire-guinea-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Ecowas Boosts Trade Using Sigmat Between Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, Guinea &#038; Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Dr. Kalilou Sylla, ECOWAS Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Agriculture is optimistically that the deployment of the automated regional transit solution &#8211; also referred to as the Interconnected system for the management of goods in transit (SIGMAT) between Cote d&#8217;ivoire, Guinea and Liberia will bolster trade and improve local revenues in the three countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">In a statement delivered on his behalf by Ambassador Josephine Nkrumah, ECOWAS Resident Representative to Liberia, at the launch of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030735.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kalilou Sylla, ECOWAS Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Agriculture is optimistically that the deployment of the automated regional transit solution &#8211; also referred to as the Interconnected system for the management of goods in transit (SIGMAT) between Cote d&#8217;ivoire, Guinea and Liberia will bolster trade and improve local revenues in the three countries. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,9156,5958,6183,6555,5959,2557,4715,1218,4712,257,52777,254,5979,4375],"class_list":["post-212443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boosts","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ecowas","tag-guinea","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-sigmat","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}