Regional Cooperation in Africa
Regional Cooperation in Africa
Established on 9 July 2002, the African Union was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity Among the objectives of the AU’s leading institutions are: to accelerate the political and socioeconomic integration of the continent; to promote and defend African common positions on issues of interest to the continen...
The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) was founded in February 1989. It aims to consolidate relations binding the member states and their people, to achieve progress and well-being of their communities, and to defend their rights, as well as the progressive realisation of free movement of persons, services, goods and capital between member states, ...
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) originated with the Lusaka Declaration of Intent and Commitment to the Establishment of a Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa in 1981, the development of the Lagos Plan of Action (LPA), and the Final Act of Lagos (FAL) of the Organisation of African Unit...
The Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community (EAC) was signed in Arusha on 30 November 1999. This organisation aims to develop policies and programmes for widening and deepening co-operation among partners in political, economic, social and cultural fields, research and technology, defence, security and legal and judicial ...
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) originated in the 1966 Customs and Economic Union of Central Africa. It was officially created in 1981, when the leaders of the UDEAC agreed in principle to form a wider economic community of Central African states. It began functioning in 1985, but was inactive for several years be...
The Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) was founded on May 28 1975, with the signing of the Treaty of Lagos. It aims to promote economic integration in the African Continent, and seeks to promote cooperation and integration, with a view to establishing an economic and monetary union as a mean of strengthening economic grow...
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa was created to supersede the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development . The Revitalised IGAD expanded areas of regional cooperation and a new organisational structure, and was officially launched by the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government on 25...
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) offices were established with the formal adoption of the NEPAD Strategic Framework at the 37th Summit of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) in July 2001, as a programme of the OAU to develop an integrated socioeconomic development framework for Africa. As a socioeconomic programm...
The Southern African Development Community has its origins in the 1980s in the establishment of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference, SADCC. In 1992, it was reconfigured into a Development Community and officially named SADC. This organisation aims to achieve common future within regional communities to ensure econom...
