African Organizations Diagram

Wow, there are a lot of acronyms and overlapping organizations in this diagram!  There were actually a few that I had never heard of.  I have listed them below.

 AMU/UMA- Union du Maghreb Arabe (Arab Maghreb Union): Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania)

AU/UA- duh, African Union (L'Union Africaine)

CEN-SAD- Community of Sahel-Saharan States (Communauté des Etats Sahélo-Sahariens): Benin, Burkina Faso Central Africa, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan,Togo, Tunisia

COMESA- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa: Burundi, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt,Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius,Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

EAC- East African Community: Burundia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda

ECCAS/CEEAC- Economic Community of Central African States(La Communauté Economique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale): Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, CAR, DROC, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, STP and Chad

ECGLC/CEPGL-Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (Communauté Économique des Pays des Grand Lacs): Burundi, DROC, and Rwanda.

ECOWAS- Economic Community of West African States: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde,, Gambia, Ghana,  Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger , Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

EMCCA/CEMAC-  Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (Communaute Economique et Monetaire de l'Afrique Centrale): Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.

IGAD/AIGD- The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Autorité intergouvernementale pour le développement): Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda.

LGA/ALG- Liptako-Gourma Authority: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger

MRU- Mano River Union: Cote D'ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone

SACU- Southern Africa Customs Union: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa

SADC- Southern Africa Development Community: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

WAMZ- West African Monetary Zone: The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone

 WAEMU/UEMOA- West African Economic and Monetary Union (Union Econonomique et Monetaire ouest-africaine): Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. 

http://www.uneca.org/cen-sad/aboutcensad.htm#whatiscensad

http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/recs/cen_sad.htm

http://www.maghrebarabe.org/en/

http://www.comesa.int/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano_River_Union

http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/15810

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_African_States

http://www.ecowas.int

http://www.uemoa.int/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liptako–Gourma_Authority

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Project-and-Operations/MN-2004-145-EN-ADF-BD-WP-MULTINTIONAL-ALG-ENGLISH.pdf

http://igad.int/

http://www.africa-union.org/recs/igad_profile.pdf

http://www.eac.int/http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/recs/eccas.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_African_Customs_Union