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Sahel-Benin Union was a short-lived union of four former
French colonies From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over , the second largest empire in the world at the time behind only the Spanish Empire. During the 19th and 20th centuri ...
of French West Africa, that were the four Republics of Upper Volta (
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...
),
Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languagesDahomey (
Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the nort ...
) and Côte d’Ivoire. This union "was the grouping that worked in the most efficient way for the cause of African unity. This union ..was provided with modest but functional institutions; a Council seating with the Chiefs of States, the ministers of common affairs and the presidents of the National Assemblies ssemblées Nationales A customs union was set up as well as sinking fund. A political, economic and military coordination developed.".Ivory Coast Ministry for African Integration
(in French) Nevertheless, it lasted only for a short time and was replaced by May 1959 far more modestly by the Conseil de l'Entente.


See also

* Conseil de l'Entente * French West Africa *
Economy of Africa The economy of Africa consists of the trade, industry, agriculture, and human resources of the continent. , approximately 1.3 billion people were living in 54 countries in Africa. Africa is a resource-rich continent. Recent growth has been d ...
* Economic community *
International organization An international organization or international organisation (see spelling differences), also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is a stable set of norms and rules meant to govern the behavior of states a ...
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Mali Federation The Mali Federation ( ar, اتحاد مالي) was a federation in West Africa linking the French colonies of Senegal and the Sudanese Republic (or French Sudan) for two months in 1960. It was founded on 4 April 1959 as a territory with self-ru ...


Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahel-Benin Union 1958 in the Republic of Dahomey 1958 in Upper Volta 1958 in Ivory Coast 1958 in Niger 1959 in the Republic of Dahomey 1959 in Upper Volta 1959 in Ivory Coast 1959 in Niger Pan-Africanism in Africa Pan-Africanism in Burkina Faso