Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) 1993 Mano River Union (MRU) 1973 Communaute Economique et Monetaire de l ’ Afrique Central (CEMAC) 1983 Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA) 1992 CEN-SAD IGAD 1986 Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 85 Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, DRC, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe Guinea, Liberia, Sierra ­Leone A customs union that includes Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, and DRC. A prospective customs union including Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. Benin, Burkina-Faso, Central African Rep., Chad, Djibouti, Eg ypt, Eritrea, The Gambia, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Libya, Tunisia, Togo, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan. Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda. Successor to the Preferential Trade Area(PTA), of Eastern and Southern Africa, which was established in 1981. The area became the hotbed of war and carnage, thus effectively paralysing the Union. The Economic Community of Central African States(ECCAS) now comprises the present members of the Central African Customs and Economic Union (UDEAC) and those of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Region French – sponsored Ghana joined the CEN-SAD in 2006 Started as the Inter-governmental Authority on Drought and desertification, (IGADD) and now called the Inter­governmental Authority on Development(IGAD)