...South African and Southern African exceptionalism is one of the root causes of the conflict between the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). This exceptionalism is therefore not confined to South Africa alone, even though it is most pronounced...

...but most are evolving into security communities as well. Those most discussed at the meeting were the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the Greater Horn of Africa. Not all are at the...

...economic priorities and cooperation, exist sub-regionally in Africa.7 Those discussed here are the Economic Community of West African States ("ECOWAS"),...the Southern African Development Community ("SADC"), the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa ("COMESA") and the Maghreb Arab Union.8 See art. 2(1...

...the Cross-Border Initiative (CBI). Regional integration is also envisaged under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC), and the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC). The Southern African Customs...

...auspices of the OAU in Abuja, Nigeria, in 1991. 19 Thus, in addition to the older RECs, such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the last couple of years alone have seen the emergence of two new such regional organizations: the...

...regional and subregional African organisations such as the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...Southern African Development Community (SADC), and IGAD. In recent years, attention has been directed towards long-term reconstruction and institutionbuilding,...

...au-oua.org/oau-info/burkdoc/mandela.htm (5 March 2002). Meanwhile, the OAU and other regional organizations such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the InterGovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have demonstrated a willingness to play a more active...

...identified which could be involved in POPs issues, such as the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...the Southern African Development Community (SADC), East African Cooperation (EAC), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the African...

...cooperation efforts are currently in operation in Africa, eg the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Efforts like these of course have implications both for political and economic stability within Africa...

...president's assurances and enthusiasm for free trade, Whitaker proceeded to Cairo, to attend a conference of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). There, she assured African delegates, in typical divide-and-rule style, that the Ugandan president...