Conseil de l'Entente
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
The Conseil de l'Entente ("Council of Accord" or "Council of Understanding") is a West African regional co-operation forum established in May 1959 by Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Dahomey (now Benin), and joined in 1966 by Togo.
The body grew out of the short-lived Sahel-Benin Union, which was itself created by the four original Council members as a partial successor to the dissolved French regional colonial federation of French West Africa.
Since 1966, the Council has possessed a permanent administrative Secretariat based in Abidjan, the largest city of Côte d'Ivore. A Mutual Aid and Loan Guarantee Fund exists to assist poorer members from a common pool.
See also
References
- Thompson, Virginia (1972), West Africa's Council of the Entente, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, ISBN 0-8014-0683-8, OCLC 201010.
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1959 in international relations
- Organizations established in 1959
- Rassemblement Démocratique Africain
- Pan-Africanism in Africa
- Pan-Africanism in Burkina Faso
- Pan-Africanism in Togo