African Union

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).

Administration

Assembly of the African Union

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.