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Law and Regional Integration in Africa Research Task: Founding documents

This guide is intended to aid those that are currently busy with their Research Task for the Law and Regional Integration in Africa module.

Agreements, treaties, etc.

2002 Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Agreement between the Governments of the Republic of Botswana, the Kingdom of Lesotho, the Republic of Namibia, the Republic of South Africa and the Kingdom of Swaziland

African regional organisations   from unity to union : key documents of the OAU, ECOWAS, SADC, IGAD and COMESA (1963 - 2001).    Pretoria :   Institute for Security Studies,   [2002?] Shelf no. GZCD 68 E.SAFE.02.AFRI

Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area 

South Africa. Department of Trade, Industry and Competition. Guide to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement. Pretoria: Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, September 2023. 

Agreement Establishing the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD).    [Djibouti :   Intergovernmental Authority on Development,   1994]. Shelf no. G 6771 ETS.94.IGAD

Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique centrale.    Treaty Establishing the Economic Community of Central African States /    [Libreville, Gabon :   Economic Community of Central African States,   1983?] Shelf no. G 6721 ETS.ECCA.83.TREA

Constitutive act of the African Union.    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia :   Organization of African Unity :   African Economic Community,   [2000] Shelf no. G 63 ETS.00.AU

Part 1, Constitutive Act of the African Union ;   Part 2, New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).    Pretoria :   Dept. of Foreign Affairs,   [2002]. Shelf no. G 68 E.FORE.02.PART

East African Community.    EAC treaty, 1999.    [Arusha, Tanzania] :   East African Community,   1999. Shelf no. G 678 ETS.EAC.99.EACT

New Partnership for Africa's Development.    The New Partnership For Africa's Development (NEPAD).    [Abuja, Nigeria :   NEPAD,   2001]. Shelf no. G 68 E.NEPA.01.NEWP 

Organization of African Unity.    OAU Charter and rules of procedure.    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia :   Press and Information Service of the OAU General Secretariat,   1992. Shelf no. G 63 E.OAU.92.OAUC

Southern African Customs Union.    New SACU Agreement between the governments of the Republic of Botswana, the Kingdom of Lesotho, the Republic of Namibia, the Republic of South Africa and the Kingdom of Swaziland :   2002. Shelf no. G 68 ETS.SACU.02.NEWS

Southern African Development Community.    Declaration and treaty.     Gaborone :   SADC Secretariat,   1993. Shelf no. G 68 SADC.SECR.98.DECL

Treaty establishing the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa /    [S.l. :   Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa,   200-?] Shelf no. G 6894 ETS.COME.00.TREA

Treaty establishing the African Economic Community.    [Abuja, Nigeria? :   Organisation of African Unity? ,   1991?]. Shelf no. G 63 ETS.91.AEC 

Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community (1999).    The Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community /    Arusha [Tanzania] :   East African Community Secretariat, in conjunction with the German Agency for Technical Co-operation,   2002. Shelf no. G 678 E.EAC.02.TREA

Treaty of the Southern African Development Community (1992).   Consolidated text of the Treaty of the Southern African Development Community, as amended.   [Windhoek] :   Southern African Development Community (SADC),   2003. Shelf no. G 68 SADC.SECR.03.CONS 

Union économique et monétaire ouest africaine (UEMOA) = West African Economic and Monetary Union (WEAMU). Treaty on the West African Economic and Monetary Union (1994)