"West Africa group" (ECOWAS plus Mauritania) Benin Burkina Faso Cabo Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo "CEMAC plus São Tomé and Príncipe, DR Congo group" (ECCAS related) Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Equatorial Guinea Gabon São Tomé and Príncipe EAC group Burundi Kenya Rwanda Tanzania Uganda • South Sudan[2] "Eastern and Southern Africa group" (COMESA related) Comoros Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Seychelles Somalia Sudan Zambia Zimbabwe SADC group Angola Botswana Lesotho Mozambique Namibia South Africa Eswatini