Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 84 Appendix Appendix 1: African Integrative Groupings Name Economic Community of West African States – (ECOWAS) Year Formed 1975 Arab Maghreb Union(AMU) 1989 East African Community(EAC) South African 1989 Development Community(SADC) Member Countries Remarks Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d ’ Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea­Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda. (Rwanda, Burundi) Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Mauritania opted out of the ECOWAS to join the AMU. She has,however, since 2007, decided to rejoin ECOWAS Started in 1964 as a Union of Maghreb Countries, the AMU has been joined by Mauritania. It is yet to have formal links with the AEC Started in 1967 and lasted until 1977. Reorganised as the East African Cooperation (EAC) in 1993 and then re-launched as the East African Community in 1999(EAC). Rwanda and Burundi have joined the EAC (2006) Formed from the SADCC. The name SADC was adopted in 1992 in Windhoek. The SADC Treaty was amended in 2001.