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Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)

Tripoli, Libya

Web site : www.cen-sad.org

The Community of Sahel-Saharan States was established on 4th February 1998 in Tripoli (Libya). It is one of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs). They 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.

CEN SAD’s missions :

  • The establishment of a global Economic Union based on the implementation of a community development plan that complements the local development plans of member States and which comprises the various fields of a sustained socio-economic development: agriculture, industry, energy, social, culture, health…

  • the removal of all restrictions hampering the integration of the member countries through the adoption of necessary measures to ensure:

    1. Free movement of persons, capitals and interests of nationals of member States;

    2. Right of establishment, ownership and exercise of economic activity;

    3. Free trade and movement of goods, commodities and services from member States;

  • The promotion of external trade through an investment policy in member States.

  • The increase of means of land, air and maritime transport and communications among member States and the execution of common projects.

  • The same right, advantages and obligations granted to their own citizens to nationals of the signatory countries in conformity with the provisions of their respective constitutions.

  • The harmonization of educational, pedagogical, scientific and cultural systems of the various cycles of education.

The Member States are : the Republic of Benin; Burkina Faso; the Central African Republic; the Union of the Comoros; the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire; the Republic of Djibouti; the Arab Republic of Egypt; the State of Eritrea; the Republic of The Gambia; the Republic of Guinea; the Republic of Guinea-Bissau; the Republic of Ghana; the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; the Republic of Liberia; the Republique of Kenya; the Republic of Mali; the Islamic Republic of Mauritania; the Kingdom of Morocco; the Republic of Niger; the Federal Republic of Nigeria; the Republic of Senegal; the Republic of Sierra Leone; the Somali Republic; the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe; the Republic of Sudan; the Republic of Chad; the Togolese Republic; the Tunisian Republic