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The African Union Conference Center and Office Complex ( AUCC) is a building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the headquarters of the African Union and plays host to the biannual AU summits. It also serves as a conference center for African and diaspora businesses. [1] The main building is 99.9 m (328 ft) tall [2] and it is the second tallest ...
African Union–Ethiopia relations. Ethiopia is one of founding African states of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) (now the African Union) on 25 May 1963 under Emperor Haile Selassie, headquartered in Addis Ababa. At the time the organization evolved up to 54 African states, except Morocco.
The African Development Bank Group ( AfDB) or Banque Africaine de Développement ( BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, since September 2014. [1] [2] The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies investing in the regional member countries (RMC).
The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (known by its acronym UNAMID) was a joint African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission formally approved by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 on 31 July 2007, [1] to bring stability to the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan while peace talks on a final ...
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a free trade area encompassing most of Africa. It was established in 2018 by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, which has 43 parties and another 11 signatories, making it the largest free-trade area by number of member states, after the World Trade Organization, and the largest in population and geographic size, spanning 1.3 ...
The group of the world's 20 leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of Africa as its more than 50 countries seek a more important role on ...
The African Union ( AU) is a continental union of 55 member states [8] located on the continent of Africa. The bloc was founded on 26 May 2001 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa. [9]
The African Union Commission ( AUC) acts as the executive/administrative branch or secretariat of the African Union (and is somewhat analogous to the European Commission ). It consists of a number of Commissioners dealing with different areas of policy. The African Union Headquarters are in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.