Economic community of the States of West Africa

The Economic community of the States of West Africa (CEDEAO) is a regional International organization. Its principal goal is to promote the co-operation and integration with for objective creating an economic union and monetarist between the countries of the West Africa. It was created the May 28th 1975 and counts 15 Member States today.

Its role

Although at the base its role is purely economic, CEDEAO rather quickly was interested in the maintenance of peace. It is indeed an essential condition so that a union can be carried out.

History

Following the tensions between the various countries, CEDEAO decided in 1978 to adopt a Protocole of nonaggression. Follow-up in 1981 by the Protocol of assistance as regards defense and a Declaration of the political principles in July 1991.

But it is in 1990 that the sedentary aspect of CEDEAO was applied concretely. At the time of the Conference of the heads of state and government, it was decided to set up a group supervising the application of a Cessez-le-feu, the ECOMOG (for Economic Community off West African States Cease-fire Monitoring Group). This group of supervision became quickly a force of interposition and intervened in particular in the civil wars of the Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau.

In 1999, following the various civil wars, the Member States decided the creation of a security force on standby. This force preserves its label of origin (the ECOMOG) and its principal tasks will be inter alia the observation and the supervision of the cease-fires, the maintenance of peace, the humane intervention, the preventive deployment, the construction of peace, disarmament and the demobilization.

January 19th 2005, during the 28th top with Accra (Ghana), Tandja Mamadou, president of the Niger, was elected president of the Economic community of the States of West Africa, to replace the Ghanaian John Kufuor. It was renewed at this station on January 13rd 2006.

In January 2007, the presidency of the Commission was entrusted to the President Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré.

Structure

CEDEAO is made up of 8 principal institutions:
  • the Conference of the Heads of States and the government
  • the Council of Ministers
  • the Parliament of the Community
  • the Economic and Social Council
  • the Court of justice of the Community
  • the commission
At the time of the top of Abuja on June 14th, 2006, the Heads of States of the ECOWAS approved a modification of the organization. The secretariat is replaced by a commission of nine police chiefs, resulting in turn from the Member States. The 4 years mandate of the first police chiefs, resulting from the Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, the Ghana, the Mali, the Niger, the Nigeria, the Senegal, Sierra Leone and the Togo will begin in January 2007. Ghana will take the presidency of the commission and Burkina Faso the vice-presidency.
  • the Bank of investment and development of CEDEAO
  • West African Organization of health

List Member States

The adhesion of all the members of the CEDEAO creation date of the organization in 1975, except for the Cape Verde, which joined it in 1976:
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cape Verde
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Sierra Leone
  • Togo

The Mauritania left CEDEAO in 2002.

Presidents of CEDEAO

External bonds

  • Official site of the Economic community of the States of West Africa
  • Treated Economic community of the States of West Africa

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