Articles of category "African Economic Community"

The Economic Community of Central African States, commonly known by its acronym ECCAS, is a non-profit organization established with the vision of promoting regional economic co-operation in Central Africa and with its respective Central African States. Today as ever, ECCAS works towards achieving collective autonomy, maintaining economic stability through intensive co-operation and raising standard of living of its member states.

Established with the aim to promote cultural, social and economic development of African states, the African Economic Community is a body that works towards achieving the following objective: to create free trade areas, single market, customs unions, common currency and a central bank establishing thus economic and monetary union. Form the pillars of AEC are a number of trade blocks, including ECOWAS, ECCAS, SADC, AMU and COMESA.