Arab Maghreb Union

Arab Maghreb Union
إتحاد المغرب العربي
Arab Maghreb Union إتحاد المغرب العربي
	Emblem
Seat of Secretariat	Rabat, Morocco
Largest city	Casablanca, Morocco
Official language	Arabic
Demonym(s)	Maghrebis
Member states	Algeria; Libya; Mauritania; Morocco; Tunisia;
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])	32.8; medium
HDI (2019 [citation needed])	0.715; high (106th)
Currency	Algerian dinar; Libyan dinar; Mauritanian ouguiya; Moroccan dirham; Tunisian dinar;
	Website; maghrebarabe.org

The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) (Arabic: إتحاد المغرب العربي Ittiḥād al-Maghrib al-‘Arabī, French: Union du Maghreb Arabe) 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]

^ Francesco Tamburini, L'Union du Maghreb Arabe, ovvero l'utopia di una organizzazione regionale africana, en "Africa", N. 3, 2008, p. 405-428
^ "Official Website: upcoming meetings". Archived from the original on 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
^ "Tunisia president in Morocco to promote Maghreb union". Al Arabiya. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2017-05-08.
^ Publitec Publications, ed. (22 December 2011). Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008. De Gruyter. p. 1117. ISBN 978-3-598-07735-7. It was reported in early January 2006, that the largely moribund Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) had appointed...
^ Thorne, John (February 17, 2012). "The liberated Maghreb looks to economic union". The National. Abu Dhabi. 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.

[1] Francesco Tamburini, L'Union du Maghreb Arabe, ovvero l'utopia di una organizzazione regionale africana, en "Africa", N. 3, 2008, p. 405-428

[2] "Official Website: upcoming meetings". Archived from the original on 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2016-03-12.

[3] "Tunisia president in Morocco to promote Maghreb union". Al Arabiya. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2017-05-08.

[4] Publitec Publications, ed. (22 December 2011). Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008. De Gruyter. p. 1117. ISBN 978-3-598-07735-7. It was reported in early January 2006, that the largely moribund Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) had appointed...

[5] Thorne, John (February 17, 2012). "The liberated Maghreb looks to economic union". The National. Abu Dhabi. 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.

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