Regions of the African Union

Short description: 5 geographic regions of the AU

Regions of the AU:
North
Southern
East
West Zone A & B
Central
Note that Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa are part of Spain .

The member states of the African Union (AU) are divided into five geographic regions of the African Union.[1]

## Contents

* 1 List (In alphabetical order)
* 1.1 North
* 1.2 South
* 1.3 East
* 1.4 West
* 1.5 Central
* 1.6 African diaspora
* 2 See also
* 3 References

## List (In alphabetical order)

### North

# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2)

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1 |  Algeria | Algiers | 2,381,740
2 |  Egypt | Cairo | 1,001,451
3 |  Libya | Tripoli | 1,759,540
4 |  Mauritania | Nouakchott | 1,030,700
5 |  Morocco | Rabat | 446,550
6 |  Tunisia | Tunis | 163,610

### South

# | Member state | Capital(s) | Area (km2)

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|
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1 |  Angola | Luanda | 1,246,700
2 |  Botswana | Gaborone | 581,726
3 |  Eswatini | Mbabane | 17,364
4 |  Lesotho | Maseru | 30,355
5 |  Malawi | Lilongwe | 118,484
6 |  Mozambique | Maputo | 801,590
7 |  Namibia | Windhoek | 824,116
8 |  South Africa | Pretoria
Cape Town
Bloemfontein | 1,221,037
9 |  Zambia | Lusaka | 752,618
10 |  Zimbabwe | Harare | 390,757

### East

# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2)

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1 |  Comoros | Moroni | 2,235
2 |  Djibouti | Djibouti | 23,200
3 |  Eritrea | Asmara | 117,600
4 |  Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 1,104,300
5 |  Kenya | Nairobi | 580,367
6 |  Madagascar | Antananarivo | 587,041
7 |  Mauritius | Port Louis | 2,040
8 |  Rwanda | Kigali | 26,798
9 |  Seychelles | Victoria | 451
10 |  Somalia | Mogadishu | 637,661
11 |  South Sudan | Juba | 619,745
12 |  Sudan | Khartoum | 1,886,068
13 |  Tanzania | Dodoma | 945,087
14 |  Uganda | Kampala | 236,040

### West

# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2)

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|
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1 |  Benin | Porto-Novo | 112,622
2 |  Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 274,000
3 |  Cabo Verde | Praia | 4,033
4 |  Côte d'Ivoire | Yamoussoukro | 322,462
5 |  Gambia | Banjul | 10,380
6 |  Ghana | Accra | 238,534
7 |  Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 36,125
8 |  Guinea | Conakry | 245,857
9 |  Liberia | Monrovia | 111,369
10 |  Mali | Bamako | 1,240,192
11 |  Niger | Niamey | 1,267,000
12 |  Nigeria | Abuja | 923,768
13 |  Senegal | Dakar | 196,723
14 |  Sierra Leone | Freetown | 71,740
15 |  Togo | Lomé | 56,785

### Central

# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2)

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|
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1 |  Burundi | Gitega | 27,834
2 |  Cameroon | Yaounde | 475,442
3 |  Central African Republic | Bangui | 622,984
4 |  Chad | N'Djamena | 1,284,000
5 |  Congo Republic | Brazzaville | 342,000
6 |  DR Congo | Kinshasa | 2,345,409
7 |  Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | 28,051
8 |  Gabon | Libreville | 267,667
9 |  São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé | 964

### African diaspora

In the Constitutive Act of the African Union,[2] under amended Article 3(q) of the Act (Objectives), the following is stated regarding the African diaspora: “invite and encourage the full participation of the African Diaspora as an important part of our continent, in building the African Union.”[3] Additionally, the African Union provides definition for its concept of the African diaspora as the following: “The African Diaspora consists of peoples of native or partial African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union.”[4]

In 2016, the African Union denied membership to Haiti due to membership admission, as per Article 29.1 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union, being limited to any “African State.”[5][2]

In the African Union Handbook (2021), persons who have been appointed to represent the African diaspora at the Assembly of the African Union have been granted the status of observer.[6] More specifically, the African Union Handbook (2021) states:

> In January 2008, the Executive Council suggested that the African diaspora be treated as Africa’s sixth region and its participation in the AU’s organs and activities be strengthened (EX.CL/Dec.406(XII)). The Assembly has recognised the diaspora as a substantive entity contributing to the economic and social development of the continent and has invited its representatives as observers to Assembly sessions (see Assembly/AU/Res.1(XVIII) of January 2012).[6]

The African Union has also established regional institutions, such as the Western Hemisphere African Diaspora Network, and international institutions, such as the Economic, Social and Cultural Council, to facilitate African diaspora relations.[7]

Additionally, the African Union works together with AfricaRecruit, the Caribbean Community and Common Market, the Commonwealth Business Council, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Bank to facilitate African diaspora relations, regionally and internationally.[7] Furthermore, individual countries (e.g., Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa ) in Africa have also undertaken national efforts to facilitate African diaspora relations, internationally.[7]

## See also

* United Nations geoscheme for Africa
* Regions of Africa

## References

1. ↑ "Appendix 1: AU Regions, Strengthening PoPular ParticiPation in the African Union". OSISA and Oxfam. 2009. p. 62. http://www.afrimap.org/english/images/report/AfriMAP-AU-Guide-EN.pdf.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Constitutive Act of the African Union". 11 July 2000. pp. 5–6, 17. https://au.int/sites/default/files/pages/34873-file-constitutiveact_en.pdf.
3. ↑ "Protocol on the Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union". 11 July 2003. p. 2. https://au.int/sites/default/files/treaties/35423-treaty-0025_-_protocol_on_the_amendments_to_the_constitutive_act_of_the_african_union_e.pdf.
4. ↑ "Report of the Meeting of Experts from Member States on the Definition of the African Diaspora". 2 July 2005. pp. 5–6. https://archives.au.int/bitstream/handle/123456789/4391/EX CL 179 VII_E.PDF.
5. ↑ "Haiti will not be admitted as African Union Member State at next Summit in Kigali, Rwanda". 18 May 2016. https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20160518-0.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "African Union Handbook 2021". 2021. p. 20. https://au.int/sites/default/files/documents/31829-doc-AU_HBK_2021_-_ENGLISH_web.pdf.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Kamei, Seraphina (2011). "Diaspora as the 'Sixth Region of Africa': An Assessment of the African Union Initiative, 2002–2010". Diaspora Studies 4 (1): 61. doi:10.1080/09739572.2011.10597353. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09739572.2011.10597353.

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