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- ABN — Autorité du Bassin du Niger (Niamey)
- ACP — African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of Countries (Lomé/Cotonou Agreement)
- ADF — African Development Fund (Tunis)
- AfDB — African Development Bank (Tunis)
- AFD — Agence Française de Développement (Paris)
- AGOA — African Growth and Opportunity Act
- AI — Amnesty International
- APRM — African Peer Review Mechanism
- AU — African Union (Addis Ababa)
- BCEAO — Banque Centrale des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Dakar)
- BEAC — Banque des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale (Yaoundé)
- CAR — Central African Republic
- CBLT — Commission du Bassin du Lac Tchad (N’Djaména)
- CEEAC — Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale (Libreville)
- — = ECCAS
- CEMAC — Communauté Economique et Monétaire de l’Afrique Centrale (Bangui)
- CEN-SAD — Community of Sahel-Saharan States (Tripoli)
- CEPGL — Communauté Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs (Gisenyi/Rwanda)
- CFAfr — Franc de la Communauté Financière Africaine (BCEAO; BEAC)
- COMESA — Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Lusaka)
- CPLP — Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (Lisbon)
- DAC — Development Assistance Committee (Paris)
- DDR — Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration
- DFID — Department for International Development (London)
- DRC — Democratic Republic of the Congo
- EAC — East African Community
- ECA — Economic Commission for Africa (United Nations; Addis Ababa)
- ECCAS — Economic Community of Central African States (Libreville)
- ECF — Extended Credit Facility (IMF)
- ECOWAS — Economic Community of West African States (Abuja)
- ECOMOG — ECOWAS Ceasefire Monitoring Group
- EDF — European Development Fund (Brussels)
- EIB — European Investment Bank (Luxemburg)
- EPA — Economic Partnership Agreement
- ESAF — Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (IMF)
- EU — European Union (Brussels)
- FAO — Food and Agricultural Organisation (Rome)
- FTA — Free Trade Area
- GDP — Gross Domestic Product
- HDI — Human Development Index (UNDP)
- HIPC — Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
- HRW — Human Rights Watch
- ICC — International Criminal Court (The Hague)
- ICG — International Crisis Group
- IDA — International Development Association (Washington)
- IDP — Internally Displaced Person
- IFAD — International Fund for Agricultural Development (Rome)
- IFC — International Finance Corporation (Washington)
- IGAD — Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Djibouti)
- ILO — International Labour Organisation (Geneva)
- IMF — International Monetary Fund (Washington)
- IOC — Indian Ocean Commission (Quatre Bornes, Mauritius)
- IORARC — Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (Port Louis)
- MDGs — Millennium Development Goals
- MDRI — Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
- MRU — Mano River Union (Freetown)
- NEPAD — New Partnership for Africa’s Development
- NGO — Non-Governmental Organisation
- OAU — Organization of African Unity
- ODA — Official Development Assistance
- OECD — Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris)
- OIC — Organisation of the Islamic Conference (Jeddah)
- OIF — Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (Paris)
- OPEC — Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Vienna)
- PALOP — Países Africanos de Lingua Oficial Portugesa
- PPP — Purchasing Power Parity
- PRGF — Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (IMF)
- PRSC — Poverty Reduction Support Credit
- PRSP — Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
- PTA — Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States (now COMESA)
- SACU — Southern African Customs Union (Pretoria)
- SADC — Southern African Development Community (Gaborone)
- SAF — Structural Adjustment Facility (IMF)
- SDR — Special Drawing Right (IMF)
- TI — Transparency International
- UAE — United Arab Emirates
- UEMOA — Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (Ouagadougou)
- UMA — Union du Maghreb Arabe
- UN — United Nations (New York)
- UNCTAD — United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Geneva)
- UNDP — United Nations Development Programme (New York)
- UNEP — United Nations Environment Programme (Nairobi)
- UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Paris)
- UNHCR — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva)
- UNICEF — United Nations Children’s Fund (New York)
- UNSC — United Nations Security Council
- UNSG — United Nations Secretary-General
- USAID — United States Agency for International Development (Washington)
- WFP — World Food Programme (Rome)
- WHO — World Health Organisation (Geneva)
- WTO — World Trade Organisation (Geneva)