African Union

noun

1. an organization of African states established in 2002 as successor to the OAU; it aims to encourage economic development and political stability through increased cooperation between its members AU

Example Sentences

The G20, which is made up of 19 countries with the largest global economies as well as the African Union and the European Union, is meeting in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

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An estimate by the African Union puts the number of people killed in the clashes and the humanitarian crisis prompted by the conflict as high as half a million.

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Today, the African Union is the only international organisation to recognise Western Sahara as a state in its own right.

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For now, Ruto has appointed four senior members of Odinga’s party to cabinet and is backing him for the influential position of the next African Union commission chairman.

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His decision to run in May's election breached the African Union’s official line that the military leaders of transitional regimes should not exploit their positions to then get themselves elected as heads of state.

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