Foreign relations of the African Union

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Life in the African Union

Citizenship
Culture
Demographics
Economy
Education
Enlargement
Foreign relations

Geography
History
Languages
Military
Politics
Sport
Statistics

African Union

This article is part of the series:
Politics and government of
the African Union

Institutions

Executive

Assembly
- Chairperson
Commission
- Chairperson
- Conference and Events
- Peace & Sec.
- Pol. Affairs
- Infra. & Energy
- Soc. Affairs
- HR, Sci., & Tech.
- Trade and Industry
- Rural Econ. & Agri.
- Economic
- Legal Counsel
Executive Council
- Rep. Committee

Legislature

Judiciary

Advisory bodies

Peace and Security Council
Economic, Social, and Cultural Council
Specialised Technical Committees
- Rural Econ., Agri.
- Monetary & Financial
- Trade, Customs, and Immigration
- Industry, Sci. & Tech., Energy...
- Transport, Comm., Tourism
- Health, Labor, Social
- Edu., Culture, & Human Resources

Financial bodies

AEC Pillars (Abuja Treaty)
- CEN-SAD
- COMESA
- EAC
- ECCAS/CEEAC
  - CEMAC
- ECOWAS
  - UEMOA
  - WAMZ
- IGAD
- SADC
  - SACU
- AMU/UMA
African Central Bank
African Monetary Fund
African Investment Bank
New Partnership for Africa's Development
- African Peer Review Mechanism

Decentralised bodies

Agencies of the AU

Other intergovernmental organizations

Membership of the AU overlaps with other IGO's, and occasionally these third-party organizations and the AU will coordinate matters of public policy.

Political

Non-Aligned Movement (Every AU member state, except the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)
Commonwealth of Nations

- Botswana
- Cameroon
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia

Regional

Arab League

- Egypt
- Sudan
- Libya
- Morocco
- Tunisia
- Algeria
- Mauritania
- Somalia
- Djibouti
- Comoros
- Eritrea

Arab Maghreb Union

- Algeria
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Tunisia

Community of Sahel-Saharan States

- Libya
- Burkina Faso
- Mali
- Niger
- Chad
- Sudan
- Central African Republic
- Eritrea
- Djibouti
- The Gambia
- Senegal
- Benin
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Guinea-Bissau
- Liberia
- Morocco
- Nigeria
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Togo
- Tunisia

Conseil de l'Entente

- Côte d'Ivoire
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Niger
- Togo

Economic

Greater Arab Free Trade Area

- Egypt
- Libya
- Morocco
- Sudan
- Tunisia

Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries

- Burundi
- D.R. Congo
- Rwanda

G20 developing nations

- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Zimbabwe

G20 industrial nations

- South Africa

- Benin
- Botswana
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Kenya
- Mauritius
- Madagascar
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe

- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Rep. Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Gabon
- the Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe

Group of 77

- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Republic of the Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger,
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe

Indian Ocean Commission

- Comoros
- Madagascar
- Mauritius
- Seychelles

Liptako-Gourma Authority

- Burkina Faso,
- Mali
- Niger

Mano River Union

- Guinea
- Liberia
- Sierra Leone

OPEC

- Algeria
- Libya
- Nigeria

Linguistic

Community of Portuguese Language Countries

- Angola
- Cape Verde
- Guinea-Bissau
- Mozambique
- São Tomé and Príncipe

Organization of Ibero-American States

- Equatorial Guinea

Religious

Organisation of the Islamic Conference

- Algeria
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Comoros
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Sudan
- Somalia
- Tunisia
- Uganda

Diplomatic missions

George W. Bush greets John Agyekum Kufuor, Chairman of the African Union, in the Oval Office June 28, 2001. White House photo by Eric Draper. George W. Bush talks with Alpha Oumar Konaré, Chairperson of the African Union Commission during his meeting with African presidents in the Cabinet Room, Thursday, June 28, 2001.

The African Union maintains special diplomatic representation with the United States and the European Union.

Response to crises and conflicts

Possibly the most pressing issue facing Africa in terms of humanitarian crises is the Darfur Conflict. International response to the Darfur conflict has been varied and inadequate to stop the violence in Southern Sudan. The AU has created a Mission to the territory, and worked to help solve the associated Chadian-Sudanese conflict. Due to the ratification of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706, the precise role of the Union in Sudan may change to a closer collaboration with UN forces.
The AU helped to coordinate the donations of individual member states' to Indonesia after its devastating 2004 tsunami.
The AU's predecessor, the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) played a role in saving innocent life during the Rwandan Genocide.
The AU as a body and most of its constituent states condemned the United States-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. In broader Middle East issues, the Union is an observer with the United Nations's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
The AU has played a secondary role in conflicts in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia. It also served to ratify results in the Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2006.
In March, 2008 an AU force stabilized Comoros by taking control of separatist forces on Anjouan.