Central African Economic Community

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Member states of the Central African Economic Community. Graublau: member only there. Dark blue: also member of CEMAC

The Central African Economic Community , mostly abbreviated to CEEAC or ECCAS , ( French : Communauté Économique des États d'Afrique Centrale ; Spanish : Comunidad Económica de Estados de África Central , Portuguese: Comunidade Económica e Monetária da África Central ) was founded on October 18, 1983 on the Summit meeting of the heads of state and government of the Central African Customs and Economic Union (UDEAC), São Tomé and Príncipe and the members of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes (CEPGL), which has existed since 1976 , and is also based on an initiative of the Organization for African Unity (OAU ). The community comprises almost 140 million people and a total gross domestic product of 170 billion dollars. The economies of the individual member countries are consistently strongly export-oriented.

The organization founded in Libreville (Gabon) includes the following member states:

RwandaRwanda Rwanda left the organization in 2007 to focus on its membership in COMESA . In 2015 Rwanda rejoined the CEEAC.

In addition to the seven member states of the economic union, the three states of the economic community of the Great Lakes countries (DR Congo, Rwanda and Burundi) joined the new economic community. Angola held observer status until 1999 when it became a full member. In the 1990s the organization was largely inactive due to the Congo War , as the member states fought on different sides. At a conference in Libreville in February 1998, the heads of state pledged to revive them. This led to the definition of their tasks in 1999 (see below) and an additional political integration through joint implementation of programs of the African Union. CEEAC has signed a partnership agreement with the EU on the condition that it merges with CEMAC to form an economic area.

Compared to other regional associations in Africa, CEEAC is a largely heterogeneous community, with the former Belgian colonies Burundi and DR Congo as well as the Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea and the Portuguese-speaking island state of São Tomé and Príncipe on the one hand and the remaining francophone states on the other.

tasks and goals

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The Community should promote and support the Member States in economic matters and in the establishment of a customs union and the creation of a common market resulting from this.

The United Nations supports the creation of special economic zones and development corridors within the economic community of the Central African states with the active participation of the private sector.

The Central African Economic Community holds a summit conference of the heads of state and government, the Council of Ministers and the General Secretariat every year.

At the Malabo Conference of Heads of State in 1999, four key fields were defined for the organization:

  • Develop capacities to ensure peace, security and stability
  • Development of economic and monetary integration
  • to create a culture for human integration
  • to create an autonomous financing mechanism

The NEPAD program provided by the African Union for all regional economic communities was ratified by the community in 2004.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ECCAS EFA profiles. UNESCO, 2012, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ http://www.afrik.com/le-rwanda-rejoint-la-ceeac
  3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Treydte: Central Africa before a new departure? In: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - Leibniz Institute for Global and Regional Studies, Institute for African Studies (Ed.): GIGA Focus Africa . No. 2 . Hamburg 2011, p. 8 .