The Report of Meeting of the Eastern Africa Chiefs of Defence Staff (EACDS), Kigali, 2004

Autorité Intergouvenementale pour le Développement (IGAD) / Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Rwanda, September 8, 2004, 14p.,

Origin : www.easbrig.org/docs/eacdskigalisep04.pdf

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The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa was created on 25 November 1996 in Djibouti (the Republic of Djibouti) to supersede the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD) founded in 1986. The IGAD is one of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs). RECs are regional groupings of African states organized into a legal entity by treaty, with economic and social integration as their main objective. The African Union currently recognizes eight RECs, each of which plays a key role in African integration.

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