Community of Sahel-Saharan States
International organization
The Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) aims to create a free trade area.
تجمع دول الساحل والصحراء Communauté des États Sahélo-Sahariens Community of Sahel-Saharan States | |
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Headquarters | ![]() |
Official languages | Arabic English French Portuguese |
Type | Trade bloc |
Membership | 29 member states |
Leaders | |
• Secretary General | Mohamed Al-Madani Al-Azhari |
Establishment | |
• Agreement signed | 4 February 1998 |
CEN-SAD was started in February 1998 by six countries. Since then its membership has grown to 29. One of its main goals is to get economic unity through the free movement of people and goods. This is to make the member states a free trade area.
List of members
changeFounding members:
Countries that joined later:
- Central African Republic (1999)
- Eritrea (1999)
- Djibouti (2000)
- Gambia (2000)
- Senegal (2000)
- Egypt (2001)
- Morocco (2001)
- Nigeria (2001)
- Somalia (2001)
- Tunisia (2001)
- Benin (2002)
- Togo (2002)
- Ivory Coast (2004)
- Guinea-Bissau (2004)
- Liberia (2004)
- Ghana (2005)
- Sierra Leone (2005)
- Comoros (2007)[1]
- Guinea (2007)[1]
- Kenya (2008)[1]
- Mauritania (2008)[1]
- São Tomé and Príncipe (2008)[1]
- Cape Verde (2009)[2]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "CEN-SAD celebrates 13th anniversary". Panapress. 4 February 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ↑ "PANAPRESS - PANAFRICAN News Agency - Official Web Site".