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The Conseil de l'Entente ("Council of Accord" or "Council of Understanding") is a West Africa n regional co-operation forum established in May 1959 by Côte D'Ivoire , Niger , Burkina Faso and Benin , and joined in 1996 by Togo . The body grew out of the short-lived Sahel-Benin Union , itself created by the four original Council members as a partial successor to the dissolved 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'Ivoire. A Mutual Aid and Loan Guarantee Fund exists to assist poorer members from a common pool. SEE ALSO |
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