Eighth Meeting of AU-RECs-ECA-AfDB Committee of Secretariat Officials Opens in Zanzibar Zanzibar 4 November 2010 – Experts from the African Union (AU), Regional Economic Communities (RECs), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and African Development Bank (AfDB), have converged on 4 November 2010, in Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, to discuss ways of improving their working relationship.