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The African Union, (AU), (Arabic: الاتحاد الأفريقي), (French: Union africaine), (Portuguese: União Africana), (Spanish: Unión Africana), (Swahili: Umoja wa Afrika), is a pan-african bloc of organizations meant to promote continental integration. The African Union's membership consists of all African states. Founded on the 26th of May 2001, being previously planned in the Sirte Declaration calling for its future creation. The African Union was official established on the 9th of July 2009, in Durban South Africa, with the base of operations being held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, officially replacing the OAU (Organization of African Unity).
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=== Administration ===
The '''African Union''' ('''AU''') is a [[Pan-Africanism|pan-African]] bloc of organizations meant to promote continental integration. The African Union's membership consists of all African states. Founded on the 26th of May 2001, being previously planned in the Sirte Declaration calling for its future creation. The African Union was official established on the 9th of July 2009, in Durban, [[Republic of South Africa|South Africa]], with the base of operations being held in the [[Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopian]] capital of Addis Ababa, officially replacing the OAU (Organization of African Unity).


==== Assembly of the African Union ====
== History ==
The Assembly of the African Union (African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government (AU-AHSG), is the overseeing, and according to AU itself the <nowiki>''</nowiki>supreme policy and decision-making organ.<nowiki>''</nowiki> It encompasses all Member State Heads of State and Government. The Assembly settles the AU's policies, establishes its priorities, and also adopts the organization's annual initiative and monitors the appliance of its polices and decision makes. According to the African Union the Assembly, <nowiki>''</nowiki>Elects the Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Appoints the AUC Commissioners and determines their functions and terms of office, Admits new members to the AU, Adopts the AU budget, Adopts the AU budget, Amends the Constitutive Act in conformity with the laid down procedures, Interprets the Constitutive Act, Approves the structure, functions and regulations of the AU Commission, Determines the structure, functions, powers, composition and organization of the Executive Council. The Assembly can in fact create any committee, <nowiki>''</nowiki>working group<nowiki>''</nowiki>, or commissions it deems necessary. It can as well delegate its powers and functions to other Union organs, as fits.
In 2023, the African Union sided with the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|West]] and condemned [[Ibrahim Traoré]]'s [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] coup in [[Burkina Faso]].<ref name=":02">{{Web citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]], [[Kambale Musavuli]]|newspaper=Independent Media Institute|title=Niger Is the Fourth Country in the Sahel to Experience an Anti-Western Coup|date=2023-08-01|url=https://portal.independentmediainstitute.org/2023/08/01/niger-is-the-fourth-country-in-the-sahel-to-experience-an-anti-western-coup/|retrieved=2023-08-03}}</ref>


==== Chairperson of the African Union ====
== Administration ==
The Chairperson of the African Union is selected by the Assembly following confirmations with Member States. The office of the Chair of the African Union is held for a period for one year by a Head of State or Government. The current Chairperson of the African Union is H.E. President Macky Sall of Republic of Senegal


Chairs of Assembly of the African Union in order.  
=== Assembly ===
The Assembly of the African Union (African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government (AU-AHSG), is the overseeing, and according to AU itself the <nowiki>''</nowiki>supreme policy and decision-making organ.<nowiki>''</nowiki> It encompasses all Member State Heads of State and Government. The Assembly settles the AU's policies, establishes its priorities, and also adopts the organization's annual initiative and monitors the appliance of its polices and decision makes. According to the African Union the Assembly, <nowiki>''</nowiki>Elects the Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Appoints the AUC Commissioners and determines their functions and terms of office, Admits new members to the AU, Adopts the AU budget, Adopts the AU budget, Amends the Constitutive Act in conformity with the laid down procedures, Interprets the Constitutive Act, Approves the structure, functions and regulations of the AU Commission, Determines the structure, functions, powers, composition and organization of the Executive Council. The Assembly can in fact create any committee, <nowiki>''</nowiki>working group<nowiki>''</nowiki>, or commissions it deems necessary. It can as well delegate its powers and functions to other Union organs, as fits.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Pan African Parliament|newspaper=African Union|title=Constitutive Act of the African Union|date=2000 -7-11|url=https://au.int/sites/default/files/pages/34873-file-constitutiveact_en.pdf|retrieved=5/21/23}}</ref>


 
=== Chairperson ===
Feb 2023 to Present - Azali Assoumani, Comoros
The Chairperson of the African Union is selected by the Assembly following confirmations with Member States. The office of the Chair of the African Union is held for a period for one year by a Head of State or Government.<ref name=":0" />
 
{| class="wikitable"
Feb 2022 to Feb 2023 - Macky Sall, Republic of Senegal
|+List of chairpeople
 
!Name
Feb 2021 to Feb 2022 - Felix Antoine Tshisekedi, Democratic Republic of Congo  
!Took office
 
!Country
Feb 2020 to Feb 2021 - Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa
|-
 
|[[Thabo Mbeki]]
Feb 2019 to Feb 2020 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt
|9 July 2002
 
|South Africa
Jan 2018 to Feb 2019 - Paul Kagame, Rwanda
|-
 
|[[Joaquim Chissano]]
Jan 2017 to Jan 2018 - Alpha Conde, Guinea
|10 July 2003
 
|[[Mozambique]]
Jan 2016 to Jan 2017 - Idriss Déby, Chad
|-
 
|[[Olusegun Obasanjo]]
Jan 2015 to Jan 2016 - Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
|11 July 2004
 
|[[Federal Republic of Nigeria|Nigeria]]
Jan 2014 to Jan 2015 - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritania  
|-
 
|[[Denis Sassou Nguesso]]
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014 - Hailemariam Dessalegn, Ethiopia
|24 January 2006
 
|[[Republic of the Congo|Congo]]
Jan 2012 to Jan 2013 - Thomas Yayi Boni, Benin
|-
 
|[[John Kufuor]]
Jan 2011 to Jan 2012 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea
|30 January 2007
 
|[[Republic of Ghana|Ghana]]
Jan 2010 to Jan 2011 - Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi
|-
 
|[[Jakaya Kikwete]]
Feb 2009 to Jan 2010 - Muammar Gaddafi, Libya
|31 January 2008
 
|[[United Republic of Tanzania|Tanzania]]
Jan 2008 to Jan 2009 - Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, UR of Tanzania
|-
 
|[[Muammar Gaddafi]]
Jan 2007 to Jan 2008 - John Kufuor, Ghana
|2 February 2009
 
|[[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011)|Libya]]
Jan 2006 to Jan 2007 - Dénis Sassou N’Guesso, Congo
|-
 
|[[Bingu wa Mutharika]]
July 2004 to Dec 2005 - Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria
|31 January 2010
 
|[[Malawi]]
July 2003 to July 2004 - Joaquim Alberto Chissano, Mozambique
|-
 
|[[Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]]
July 2002 to July 2003 - Thabo Mbeki, South Africa (edited)
|31 January 2011
|[[Equatorial Guinea]]
|-
|[[Yayi Boni]]
|29 January 2012
|[[Republic of Benin|Benin]]
|-
|[[Hailemariam Desalegn]]
|27 January 2013
|[[Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]]
|-
|[[Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz]]
|30 January 2014
|[[Islamic Republic of Mauritania|Mauritania]]
|-
|[[Robert Mugabe]]
|30 January 2015
|[[Republic of Zimbabwe|Zimbabwe]]
|-
|[[Idriss Déby]]
|30 January 2016
|[[Republic of Chad|Chad]]
|-
|[[Alpha Condé]]
|30 January 2017
|[[Republic of Guinea|Guinea]]
|-
|[[Paul Kagame]]
|28 January 2018
|[[Republic of Rwanda|Rwanda]]
|-
|[[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]]
|10 February 2019
|[[Arab Republic of Egypt|Egypt]]
|-
|[[Cyril Ramaphosa]]
|10 February 2020
|South Africa
|-
|[[Félix Tshisekedi]]
|6 February 2021
|[[Democratic Republic of the Congo|DR Congo]]
|-
|[[Macky Sall]]
|5 February 2022
|[[Republic of Senegal|Senegal]]
|-
|[[Azali Assoumani]]
|18 February 2023
|[[Union of the Comoros|Comoros]]
|}


== African Union Commission ==
== African Union Commission ==
AUC Structure
AUC Chairperson
AUC Deputy Chairperson
AUC Commissioners
High Representatives of the AUC Chairperson
== The Executive Council ==
== Judicial, Human Rights & Legal Organs ==
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR)
Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC)
AU Commission on International Law (AUCIL)


AU Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC)
* AUC Structure
* AUC Chairperson
* AUC Deputy Chairperson
* AUC Commissioners
* High Representatives of the AUC Chairperson<ref name=":0" />


African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
== Judicial, human rights and legal organs ==


== The Pan-African Parliament ==
* African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
The PAP Permanent Committees
* African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR)
* Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC)
* AU Commission on International Law (AUCIL)
* AU Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC)
* African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)<ref name=":0" />


== Pan-African Parliament ==
== Financial Institutions ==
== Financial Institutions ==
The African Monetary Fund (AMF)
The African Investment Bank (AIB)


The African Central Bank (ACB)
* African Monetary Fund (AMF)
* African Investment Bank (AIB)
* African Central Bank (ACB)<ref name=":0" />


== Regional Economic Communities ==
== Regional Economic Communities ==
Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)
Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
East African Community (EAC)


Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)  
* Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)
 
* Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)  
* Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
 
* Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
African Economic Community (AEC)*
* Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
* East African Community (EAC)
* Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
* Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
* African Economic Community (AEC)*<ref name=":0" />


== The Peace & Security Council ==
== The Peace & Security Council ==
PSC Subsidiary Bodies
Military Staff Committee
Committee of Experts
AFRICAN PEACE AND SECURITY ARCHITECTURE (APSA)
Panel of the Wise
Continental Early Warning System (CEWS)
Arican Network of Women in Conflict Prevention and Peace Mediation (FemWise–Africa)
Peace Fund
African Standby Force (ASF)
Peace Support Operations
== Specialized Agencies & Institutions ==
EDUCATION, HUMAN RESOURCES, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BODIES
PAN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY (PAU)
PAN AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT (IPED)/AFRICAN OBSERVATORY FOR EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S EDUCATION IN AFRICA (CIEFFA)
SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND RESEARCH COMMISSION (STRC)
AFRICAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION COUNCIL (ASRIC)
AFRICAN OBSERVATORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION (AOSTI)
GENDER DEVELOPMENT


 
* PSC Subsidiary Bodies
FUND FOR AFRICAN WOMEN
* Military Staff Committee
 
* Committee of Experts
ECONOMIC BODIES
* AFRICAN PEACE AND SECURITY ARCHITECTURE (APSA)
AU INSTITUTE FOR STATISTICS (STATAFRIC)
* Panel of the Wise
PAN AFRICAN TRAINING CENTRE ON STATISTICS
* Continental Early Warning System (CEWS)
ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE BODIES
* Arican Network of Women in Conflict Prevention and Peace Mediation (FemWise–Africa)
AFRICAN CIVIL AVIATION COMMISSION (AFCAC)
* Peace Fund
AFRICAN AIRLINES ASSOCIATION (AFRAA)
* African Standby Force (ASF)
AFRICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION (ATU)
* Peace Support Operations<ref name=":0" />
PAN AFRICAN POSTAL UNION (PAPU)
AFRICAN ENERGY COMMISSION (AFREC)
AFRICAN COMMISSION ON NUCLEAR ENERGY (AFCONE)
AFRICAN MINERALS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (AMDC)
RURAL ECONOMY AND AGRICULTURE BODIES
INTER-AFRICAN PHYTOSANITARY COUNCIL (IAPSC)
SEMI-ARID FOOD GRAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (SAFGRAD)
AFRICAN UNION–INTER-AFRICAN BUREAU FOR ANIMAL RESOURCES (AU–IBAR)
PAN AFRICAN VETERINARY VACCINE CENTRE (PANVAC)
PAN AFRICAN TSETSE AND TRYPANOSOMIASIS ERADICATION CAMPAIGN (PATTEC)
FOUTA DJALLON HIGHLANDS PROGRAMME AU COORDINATION OFFICE
AFRICAN RISK CAPACITY (ARC)
SECURITY BODIES
COMMITTEE OF INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY SERVICES OF AFRICA (CISSA)
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR THE STUDY AND RESEARCH ON TERRORISM (ACSRT)
AFRICAN UNION MECHANISM FOR POLICE COOPERATION (AFRIPOL)
SOCIAL AFFAIRS BODIES
AFRICA CENTRES FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (AFRICA CDC)
CENTRE FOR LINGUISTIC AND HISTORICAL STUDIES BY ORAL TRADITION (CELHTO)
AFRICAN ACADEMY OF LANGUAGES (ACALAN)
AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR REMITTANCES (AIR)
AFRICAN UNION SPORTS COUNCIL (AUSC)
AFRICAN AUDIOVISUAL AND CINEMA COMMISSION (AACC)
OTHER BODIES
AFRICAN CAPACITY BUILDING FOUNDATION (ACBF)
 
PAN AFRICAN WOMEN’S ORGANIZATION (PAWO)


== AU Foundation ==
== AU Foundation ==


 
* The African Continental Free Trade Area
 
* Institutional Framework of the AfCFTA
 
* The Assembly
 
* The Council of Ministers
 
* The Committee of Senior Trade Officials<ref name=":0" />
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The African Continental Free Trade Area
 
Institutional Framework of the AfCFTA
 
The Assembly
 
The Council of Ministers
 
The Committee of Senior Trade Officials
 
== NEPAD / AU Development Agency ==
 
== Specialised Technical Committees ==
 
== The Permanent Representatives Committee ==


== References ==
== References ==
<ref>{{Web citation|author=Pan African Parliament|newspaper=African Union|title=Constitutive Act of the African Union|date=2000 -7-11|url=https://au.int/sites/default/files/pages/34873-file-constitutiveact_en.pdf|retrieved=5/21/23}}</ref>
[[Category:Intergovernmental organizations]]
[[Category:Intergovernmental organizations]]

Revision as of 16:28, 3 August 2023

African Union
الاتحاد الأفريقي
Umoja wa Afrika
Flag of African Union
Flag
Coat of arms of African Union
Coat of arms
Suspended members in light green
Suspended members in light green
Largest cityLagos
Leaders
• Chairperson
Azali Assoumani
History
• Founded
9 July 2002


The African Union (AU) is a pan-African bloc of organizations meant to promote continental integration. The African Union's membership consists of all African states. Founded on the 26th of May 2001, being previously planned in the Sirte Declaration calling for its future creation. The African Union was official established on the 9th of July 2009, in Durban, South Africa, with the base of operations being held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, officially replacing the OAU (Organization of African Unity).

History

In 2023, the African Union sided with the West and condemned Ibrahim Traoré's anti-imperialist coup in Burkina Faso.[1]

Administration

Assembly

The Assembly of the African Union (African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government (AU-AHSG), is the overseeing, and according to AU itself the ''supreme policy and decision-making organ.'' It encompasses all Member State Heads of State and Government. The Assembly settles the AU's policies, establishes its priorities, and also adopts the organization's annual initiative and monitors the appliance of its polices and decision makes. According to the African Union the Assembly, ''Elects the Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Appoints the AUC Commissioners and determines their functions and terms of office, Admits new members to the AU, Adopts the AU budget, Adopts the AU budget, Amends the Constitutive Act in conformity with the laid down procedures, Interprets the Constitutive Act, Approves the structure, functions and regulations of the AU Commission, Determines the structure, functions, powers, composition and organization of the Executive Council. The Assembly can in fact create any committee, ''working group'', or commissions it deems necessary. It can as well delegate its powers and functions to other Union organs, as fits.[2]

Chairperson

The Chairperson of the African Union is selected by the Assembly following confirmations with Member States. The office of the Chair of the African Union is held for a period for one year by a Head of State or Government.[2]

List of chairpeople
Name Took office Country
Thabo Mbeki 9 July 2002 South Africa
Joaquim Chissano 10 July 2003 Mozambique
Olusegun Obasanjo 11 July 2004 Nigeria
Denis Sassou Nguesso 24 January 2006 Congo
John Kufuor 30 January 2007 Ghana
Jakaya Kikwete 31 January 2008 Tanzania
Muammar Gaddafi 2 February 2009 Libya
Bingu wa Mutharika 31 January 2010 Malawi
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo 31 January 2011 Equatorial Guinea
Yayi Boni 29 January 2012 Benin
Hailemariam Desalegn 27 January 2013 Ethiopia
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz 30 January 2014 Mauritania
Robert Mugabe 30 January 2015 Zimbabwe
Idriss Déby 30 January 2016 Chad
Alpha Condé 30 January 2017 Guinea
Paul Kagame 28 January 2018 Rwanda
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi 10 February 2019 Egypt
Cyril Ramaphosa 10 February 2020 South Africa
Félix Tshisekedi 6 February 2021 DR Congo
Macky Sall 5 February 2022 Senegal
Azali Assoumani 18 February 2023 Comoros

African Union Commission

  • AUC Structure
  • AUC Chairperson
  • AUC Deputy Chairperson
  • AUC Commissioners
  • High Representatives of the AUC Chairperson[2]

Judicial, human rights and legal organs

  • African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
  • African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR)
  • Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC)
  • AU Commission on International Law (AUCIL)
  • AU Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC)
  • African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)[2]

Pan-African Parliament

Financial Institutions

  • African Monetary Fund (AMF)
  • African Investment Bank (AIB)
  • African Central Bank (ACB)[2]

Regional Economic Communities

  • Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)
  • Southern African Development Community (SADC)
  • Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
  • Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
  • Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
  • East African Community (EAC)
  • Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
  • Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
  • African Economic Community (AEC)*[2]

The Peace & Security Council

  • PSC Subsidiary Bodies
  • Military Staff Committee
  • Committee of Experts
  • AFRICAN PEACE AND SECURITY ARCHITECTURE (APSA)
  • Panel of the Wise
  • Continental Early Warning System (CEWS)
  • Arican Network of Women in Conflict Prevention and Peace Mediation (FemWise–Africa)
  • Peace Fund
  • African Standby Force (ASF)
  • Peace Support Operations[2]

AU Foundation

  • The African Continental Free Trade Area
  • Institutional Framework of the AfCFTA
  • The Assembly
  • The Council of Ministers
  • The Committee of Senior Trade Officials[2]

References

  1. ↑ Vijay Prashad, Kambale Musavuli (2023-08-01). "Niger Is the Fourth Country in the Sahel to Experience an Anti-Western Coup" Independent Media Institute. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Pan African Parliament (2000 -7-11). "Constitutive Act of the African Union" African Union. Retrieved 5/21/23.
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