Efforts to reach new-style trade and disclosure deals with two groups of African countries were intensified on the European Commission this week.

Efforts to reach new-style trade and disclosure deals with two groups of African countries were intensified on the European Commission this week, as the trade ministers of 77 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations arrived in Brussels for talks.

Commission officials said that the meeting exhibited the second phase of talks with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a 15-member bloc * and with the six-member Central African Economic and Monetary