36 Members (excluding the associate or suspended members but including the countries represented on their behalf) [The rulers are not necessarily the representatives in the organisation. ] :
| | ANGOLA | (Luanda) | | President Jose Eduardo dos Santos | | |
| | BURKINA FASO | (Ouagadougou) | | President Blaise Compaore | | |
| | BURUNDI | (Bujumbura) | | President Pierre Buyoya | | |
| | BENIN | (Porto Novo a + Cotonou ilnqr) | | President Nicephore Soglo | | |
| | CENTRAL-AFRICA | (Bangui) | | President Andre-Dieudonne Kolingba | | |
| | CONGO | (Brazzaville a + Pointe Noire n) | | President Pascal Lissouba | | |
| | COTE D´IVOIRE | (Yamoussoukro a + Abidjan dln) | | President Felix Houphouet-Boigny | | |
| | CAPE VERDE | (Praia) | | President Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro | | |
| | JIBUTI | (Jibuti) | | President Hassan Gouled Aptidon | | |
| | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) | | President Hosni Mubarak | | |
| | FRANCE | (Paris) | | President Francois Mitterrand | | |
| | GABON | (Libreville) | | President Omar Bongo | | |
| | GAMBIA | (Banjul) | | President Sir Dawda Jawara | | |
| | GUINEA | (Conakry) | | President Lansana Conte | | |
| | EQUATORIAL GUINEA | (Malabo a) | | President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | | |
| | GUINEA-BISSAU | (Bissau) | | President Joao Bernardo Vieira | | |
| | COMOROS | (Moroni) | | President Said Mohamed Djohar | | |
| | LIBERIA | (Monrovia) | | President Amos Sawyer | | |
| | MOROCCO | (Rabat a) | | King Hassan II | | |
| | MALI | (Bamako) | | President Alpha Oumar Konare | | |
| | MAURITANIA | (Nouakchott) | | President Maaouya Ould Sid´Ahmed Taya | | |
| | MAURITIUS | (Port Louis a + Reduit in Moka r) | | President Cassam Uteem | | |
| | MOZAMBIQUE | (Maputo) | | President Joaquim Chissano | | |
| | NIGER | (Niamey) | | President Ali Saibou | | |
| | NIGERIA | (Abuja a + Lagos r) | | President Ibrahim Babangida | | |
| | RWANDA | (Kigali) | | President Juvenal Habyarimana | | |
| | SEYCHELLES | (Port Victoria) | | President France-Albert Rene | | |
| | SUDAN | (Khartoum) | | Omar Al-Bashir | | |
| | SIERRA LEONE | (Freetown) | | Valentine Strasser-King | | |
| | SENEGAL | (Dakar) | | President Abdou Diouf | | |
| | SOMALIA | (Mogadishu) | | President Ali Mahdi Muhammad | | |
| | SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE | (Sao Tome) | | President Miguel Trovoada | | |
| | TOGO | (Lome) | | President Gnassingbe Eyadema | | |
| | TANZANIA | (Dar Es Salaam a + Dodoma f) | | President Ali Hassan Mwinyi | | |
| | UGANDA | (Kampala a + Entebbe r) | | President Yoweri Museveni | | |
| | ZIMBABWE | (Harare) | | President Robert Mugabe | | |