The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) (Arabic: اتحاد المغرب العربي, Ittiḥād al-Maghrib al-‘Arabī; French: Union du Maghreb arabe or UMA) is a trade agreement aiming for economic and some sort of future political unity among Arab countries of the Maghreb in North Africa: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
The union is inactive and frozen due to deep political and economical disagreements between Morocco and Algeria regarding, among others, the issue of Western Sahara.
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