POLS 452 Study Guide - Southern African Development Community, Paris Club, Franklin Graham
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Us reserved right to intervene in africa until 1990"s to stop the spread of communism had close ties to liberia, morocco, ethiopia (under selassie), south africa, zaire (under. Organization of african unity founded in 1963: oau charter, respected territorial borders laid out by colonizers didn"t want their territory eliminated or cut-off done to prevent conflict between states. Oau never supports rebel groups- until they seized power. Ecowas- economic community of western african states: directly regulates trade goes from senegal to nigeria common currency implemented- eco- not entirely successful bc of ties to francs. Sadc- southern african development community originally to encourage cooperation against apartheid s. africa peacekeeping in lesotho and burundi. Morocco to egypt trade with europe/immigration issues anti-al-queda cooperation. Eccas- economic community of central african states lack of infrastructure/regional trade conflict/war. All try to promote trade within africa most countries top-four trading partners are not in africa problem w/trade pooling in biggest member: africa in sadc.
