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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.
Conseil de l'Entente | |
|---|---|
 Countries in the Conseil de l'Entente | |
| Secretariat | Abidjan |
| Membership | Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin), Togo |
| Establishment | |
• Establishment | May 1959 |
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
editReferences
edit- Thompson, Virginia (1972), West Africa's Council of the Entente, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, ISBN 0-8014-0683-8, OCLC 201010.