African and Malagasy Union
Intergovernmental organization | |
Legal status | defunct |
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Purpose | Various; originally cooperation |
Headquarters | Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo |
Official language | French |
Main organ | Various |
The African and Malagasy Union (AMU) (
History
The organization was founded on 12 September 1961 in
In March 1964 the UAM changed its name to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation (Union Africaine et Malgache de Coopération Économique; UAMCE).[3] Moktar Ould Daddah was elected as the president of the organisation while the city of Yaoundé was selected as the headquarters seat.[3] Subsequently, it confined itself to economic affairs and by 1966 had become inactive.[4]
The African and Malagasy Common Organization (Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache; OCAM) was the successor to the UAMCE. It was set up at
The organization's later history became increasingly troubled.
Member states
Founding members:
- Chad (withdrew 1974)
- Cameroon (withdrew 1974)
- Republic of the Congo (withdrew 1973)
- Dahomey (later Benin)
- Gabon (withdrew 1977)
- Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso)
- Mauritania (withdrew 1965)
- Niger
- Malagasy Republic (later Madagascar) (withdrew 1974)
- Central African Republic
- Senegal
- Côte d'Ivoire
Joined February 1965:
Joined May 1965:
- Zaire (later Democratic Republic of the Congo) (withdrew 1972)
- Rwanda
Joined 1970:
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-93921-8.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-57958-314-9.
- ^ a b Milutin Tomanović (1965) Hronika međunarodnih događaja 1964, Institute of International Politics and Economics, p224 (in Serbo-Croatian)
- ISBN 978-90-247-1601-2.