OHADA's mission and objectives
To harmonize business law in Africa so as to guarantee, across its Member States, legal and judicial security for investors and businesses, and thereby drive economic development and create a vast integrated market so as to make Africa a « hub of development ».
OHADA's institutions
OHADA has built an institutional system structured around 5 bodies : the Conference of Heads of State and Government, the Council of Ministers, the Permanent Secretariat, the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration, and the Regional Higher School of Magistracy.
OHADA's geographic area
17 States are members of OHADA : Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Comoros, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Chad and Togo.
How to join OHADA
OHADA is open to any State, whether or not a member of the African Union, wishing to join. A growing number of African States today are showing increasing interest in the process of legal unification and economic rule of law.
