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{{Short description|West African regional co-operation forum}}
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| membership             = [[Côte d'Ivoire]], [[Niger]], [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]] (now [[Burkina Faso]]), [[Dahomey]] (now [[Benin]]), [[Togo]]
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[[File:Logo Conseil de l'Entente.svg|thumb|Logo]]
The '''Conseil de l'Entente''' ("Council of Accord" or "Council of Understanding") is a [[West African]] regional co-operation forum established in May 1959 by [[Côte d'Ivoire]], [[Niger]], [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]] (now [[Burkina Faso]]) and [[Republic of Dahomey|Dahomey]] (now [[Benin]]), and joined in 1966 by [[Togo]].

The body grew out of the short-lived [[Sahel-Benin Union]], which was itself created by the four original Council members as a partial successor to the dissolved [[France|French]] regional colonial federation of [[French West Africa]].

Since 1966, the Council has possessed a permanent administrative Secretariat based in [[Abidjan]], the largest city of Côte d'Ivore. A Mutual Aid and Loan Guarantee Fund exists to assist poorer members from a common pool.

==See also==
*[[Entente (disambiguation)|Entente]]
*[[Trade bloc]]
*[[International organization]]s

==References==
*{{citation|last=Thompson|first=Virginia|title=West Africa's Council of the Entente|year=1972|publisher=[[Cornell University Press]]|location=[[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]]|isbn=0-8014-0683-8|oclc=201010}}.

==External links==
* http://www.conseildelentente.org

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[[Category:Rassemblement Démocratique Africain]]
[[Category:Pan-Africanism in Africa]]
[[Category:Pan-Africanism in Burkina Faso]]
[[Category:Pan-Africanism in Togo]]