Arab Maghreb Union إتحاد المغرب العربي | |
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Seat of Secretariat | Rabat, Morocco |
Largest city | Casablanca, Morocco |
Official language | Arabic |
Demonym(s) | Maghrebis |
Member states | |
Leaders | |
• Secretary General | Taïeb Baccouche |
Area | |
• Total | 6,046,441 km2 (2,334,544 sq mi) (7th) |
Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 102,877,547 (13th) |
• Density | 17/km2 (44.0/sq mi) (217th) |
GDP (PPP) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $1.299173 trillion [citation needed] (23rd) |
• Per capita | $12,628 [citation needed] |
GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $382.780 billion [citation needed] (37st) |
• Per capita | $3,720 [citation needed] |
Gini (2012 [citation needed]) | ![]() medium inequality |
HDI (2019 [citation needed]) | ![]() high (106th) |
Currency | |
Website maghrebarabe |
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The Arab Maghreb Union (Arabic: إتحاد المغرب العربي Ittiḥād al-Maghrib al-‘Arabī, French: Union du Maghreb Arabe, AMU/UMA) is a political union and economic union trade agreement aiming for economic and future political unity among Arab countries that are located primarily in the Maghreb in North Africa. Its members are the nations of Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.[1] The Union has been unable to achieve tangible progress on its goals due to deep economic and political disagreements between Morocco and Algeria regarding, among others, the issue of Western Sahara. No high-level meetings have taken place since 3 July 2008,[2] and commentators regard the Union as largely dormant.[3][4][5]
It was reported in early January 2006, that the largely moribund Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) had appointed...
Tunisia's interim president, Moncef Marzouki, toured Morocco, Mauritania and Algeria last week in a bid to breathe life into the moribund Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), a planned North African trading bloc. While economic integration could boost employment and living standards across the region, leaders largely unanswerable to voters dithered for years in making it happen.