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'{{Short description|5 geographic regions of the AU}} {{distinguish|List of regions of Africa}} [[File:Regions of the African Union.png|thumb|250px|Regions of the AU:<br/> {{Color box|#DAA520|North|border=darkgray}}<br/> {{Color box|#87CEEB|Southern|border=darkgray}}<br/> {{Color box|#90EE90|East|border=darkgray}}<br/> {{Color box|#FA8072|West Zone A & B|border=darkgray}}<br/> {{Color box|#AC9DDB|Central|border=darkgray}}<br/>Note that the African Union includes the [[African diaspora]] as a region and that [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]] in [[North Africa]] are part of [[Spain]].]] The [[Member states of the African Union|member states]] of the [[African Union]] (AU) are divided into five geographic '''regions of the African Union'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afrimap.org/english/images/report/AfriMAP-AU-Guide-EN.pdf |title=Appendix 1: AU Regions, Strengthening PoPular ParticiPation in the African Union |date=2009 |page=62 |publisher=OSISA and Oxfam |access-date=2 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927110741/http://www.afrimap.org/english/images/report/AfriMAP-AU-Guide-EN.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2013 }}</ref> The [[African diaspora]], which includes people of [[Ethnic groups of Africa|African descent]] living outside of the African continent, such as the [[African diaspora in the Americas|Americas]], [[African Australians|Australia]], [[African diaspora#Indian and Pacific Oceans|Asia]], and [[Afro-European|Europe]], has been officially recognized by the AU as its sixth region.<ref name="Kamei">{{cite journal |last1=Kamei |first1=Seraphina |title=Diaspora as the 'Sixth Region of Africa': An Assessment of the African Union Initiative, 2002–2010 |journal=Diaspora Studies |date=2011 |volume=4 |issue=1 |page=61 |doi=10.1080/09739572.2011.10597353 |doi-broken-date=31 December 2022 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09739572.2011.10597353 |s2cid=152812717}}</ref> ==List (In alphabetical order)== ===North=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! width="20px" class="unsortable"|# !! Member state !! Capital !! Area (km²) |- | align="center" |1 || {{ALG}} || [[Algiers]] || align="right" |2,381,740 |- | align="center" |2 || {{EGY}} || [[Cairo]] || align="right" |1,001,451 |- | align="center" |3 || {{LBY}} || [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] || align="right" |1,759,540 |- | align="center" |4 || {{MAR}} || [[Rabat]] || align="right" |446,550 |- | align="center" |5 || {{SADR}} ([[Western Sahara]]) || [[Laayoune|El Aaiún]] {{small|(proclaimed)}}|| align="right" |266,060 |- | align="center" |6 || {{TUN}} || [[Tunis]] || align="right" |163,610 |} ===South=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! width="20px" class="unsortable"|# !! width="120px"| Member state !! width="90px"| Capital(s) !! Area (km²) |- | align="center" |1 || {{ANG}} || [[Luanda]] || align="right" 09wash|1,246,700 |- | align="center" |2 || {{BOT}} || [[Gaborone]] || align="right" |581,726 |- | align="center" |3 || {{flag|Eswatini|name=Eswatini}} || [[Mbabane]] || align="right" |17,364 |- | align="center" |4 || {{LES}} || [[Maseru]] || align="right" |30,355 |- | align="center" |5|| {{MWI}} || [[Lilongwe]] || align="right" |118,484 |- | align="center" |6 || {{MOZ}} || [[Maputo]] || align="right" |801,590 |- | align="center" |7 || {{NAM}} || [[Windhoek]] || align="right" |824,116 |- | align="center" |8 || {{ZAF}} || [[Pretoria]]<br>[[Cape Town]]<br>[[Bloemfontein]] || align="right" |1,221,037 |- | align="center" |9 || {{ZMB}} || [[Lusaka]] || align="right" |752,618 |- | align="center" |10 || {{ZIM}} || [[Harare]] || align="right" |390,757 |} ===East=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! width="20px" class="unsortable"|# !! width="120px"| Member state !! width="90px"| Capital !! Area (km²) |- | align="center" |1 || {{COM}} || [[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]] || align="right" |2,235 |- | align="center" |2 || {{DJI}} || [[Djibouti (city)|Djibouti]] || align="right" |23,200 |- | align="center" |3 || {{ERI}} || [[Asmara]] || align="right" |117,600 |- | align="center" |4 || {{ETH}} || [[Addis Ababa]] || align="right" |1,104,300 |- | align="center" |5 || {{KEN}} || [[Nairobi]] || align="right" |580,367 |- | align="center" |6 || {{MAD}} || [[Antananarivo]] || align="right" |587,041 |- | align="center" |7 || {{MRI}} || [[Port Louis]] || align="right" |2,040 |- | align="center" |8 || {{RWA}} || [[Kigali]] || align="right" |26,798 |- | align="center" |9 || {{SEY}} || [[Victoria, Seychelles|Victoria]] || align="right" |451 |- | align="center" |10 || {{SOM}} || [[Mogadishu]] || align="right" |637,661 |- | align="center" |11 || {{SSD}} || [[Juba]] || align="right" |619,745 |- | align="center" |12 || {{SUD}} || [[Khartoum]] || align="right" |1,886,068 |- | align="center" |13 || {{TZA}} || [[Dodoma]] || align="right" |945,087 |- | align="center" |14 || {{UGA}} || [[Kampala]] || align="right" |236,040 |} ===West=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! width="20px" class="unsortable"|# !! width="120px"| Member state !! width="90px"| Capital !! Area (km²) |- | align="center" |1 || {{BEN}} || [[Porto-Novo]] || align="right" |112,622 |- | align="center" |2 || {{BFA}} || [[Ouagadougou]] || align="right" |274,000 |- | align="center" |3 || {{flag|Cabo Verde}} || [[Praia]] || align="right" |4,033 |- | align="center" |4 || {{Flag|Côte d'Ivoire}} || [[Yamoussoukro]] || align="right" |322,462 |- | align="center" |5 || {{GAM}} || [[Banjul]] || align="right" |10,380 |- | align="center" |6 || {{GHA}} || [[Accra]] || align="right" |238,534 |- | align="center" |7 || {{GNB}} || [[Bissau]] || align="right" |36,125 |- | align="center" |8 || {{GUI}} || [[Conakry]] || align="right" |245,857 |- | align="center" |9 || {{LBR}} || [[Monrovia]] || align="right" |111,369 |- | align="center" |10 || {{MRT}} || [[Nouakchott]] || align="right" |1,030,700 |- | align="center" |11 || {{MLI}} || [[Bamako]] || align="right" |1,240,192 |- | align="center" |12 || {{NIG}} || [[Niamey]] || align="right" |1,267,000 |- | align="center" |13 || {{NGR}} || [[Abuja]] || align="right" |923,768 |- | align="center" |14 || {{SEN}} || [[Dakar]] || align="right" |196,723 |- | align="center" |15 || {{SLE}} || [[Freetown]] || align="right" |71,740 |- | align="center" |16 || {{TOG}} || [[Lomé]] || align="right" |56,785 |} ===Central=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! width="20px" class="unsortable"|# !! width="180px"|Member state !! width="90px"| Capital !! Area (km²) |- | align="center" |1 || {{BDI}} || [[Gitega]] || align="right" |27,834 |- | align="center" |2 || {{CMR}} || [[Yaounde]] || align="right" |475,442 |- | align="center" |3 || {{CAF}} || [[Bangui]] || align="right" |622,984 |- | align="center" |4 || {{TCD}} || [[N'Djamena]] || align="right" |1,284,000 |- | align="center" |5 || {{flag|Republic of the Congo|name=Congo Republic}} || [[Brazzaville]] || align="right" |342,000 |- | align="center" |6 || {{flag|DR Congo}} || [[Kinshasa]] || align="right" |2,345,409 |- | align="center" |7 || {{GNQ}} || [[Malabo]] || align="right" |28,051 |- | align="center" |8 || {{GAB}} || [[Libreville]] || align="right" |267,667 |- | align="center" |9 || {{STP}}|| [[São Tomé]] || align="right" |964 |} ===African diaspora=== In the [[Constitutive Act of the African Union]],<ref name="AU I">{{cite web |title=Constitutive Act of the African Union |url=https://au.int/sites/default/files/pages/34873-file-constitutiveact_en.pdf |website=African Union |publisher=African Union |date=11 July 2000 |pages=5–6, 17}}</ref> 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.”<ref name="AU II">{{cite web |title=Protocol on the Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union |url=https://au.int/sites/default/files/treaties/35423-treaty-0025_-_protocol_on_the_amendments_to_the_constitutive_act_of_the_african_union_e.pdf |website=African Union |publisher=African Union |date=11 July 2003 |page=2}}</ref> Additionally, the African Union provides definition for its concept of the African diaspora as the following: “The African Diaspora consists of peoples of [[Ethnic groups of Africa|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.”<ref name="AU III">{{cite web |title=Report of the Meeting of Experts from Member States on the Definition of the African Diaspora |url=https://archives.au.int/bitstream/handle/123456789/4391/EX%20CL%20179%20VII_E.PDF |website=African Union |publisher=African Union |date=2 July 2005 |pages=5–6}}</ref> 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.”<ref name="AU IV">{{cite web |title=Haiti will not be admitted as African Union Member State at next Summit in Kigali, Rwanda |url=https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20160518-0 |website=African Union |publisher=African Union |date=18 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="AU I" /> 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.<ref name="AU V">{{cite web |title=African Union Handbook 2021 |url=https://au.int/sites/default/files/documents/31829-doc-AU_HBK_2021_-_ENGLISH_web.pdf |website=African Union |publisher=African Union |date=2021 |page=20}}</ref> More specifically, the African Union Handbook (2021) states: <blockquote>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).<ref name="AU V" /></blockquote> 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.<ref name="Kamei" /> 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.<ref name="Kamei" /> Furthermore, individual countries (e.g., [[Ghana]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Nigeria]], [[South Africa]]) in [[Africa]] have also undertaken national efforts to facilitate African diaspora relations, internationally.<ref name="Kamei" /> ==See also== *[[United Nations geoscheme for Africa]] *[[Regions of Africa]] ==References== {{Reflist}} {{African Union}} [[Category:African Union]] [[Category:Regions of Africa|African Union]]'