Member states of the African Union
There are 54 member states of the African Union.
A member state is any one of the 54 sovereign nation states that have acceded to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) since it was established on 25 May 1963, and South Sudan. From an original membership of thirty-six states, there have been eighteen successive enlargements, the largest occurring on 18 July 1975, when four states joined since went it first started. The African Union is composed of fifty two republics, and two kingdoms.
South Sudan is the newest member state, joining on 27 July 2011. Three member states have been suspended due to a coup d'état or political struggles. The only African state which could join, or more precisely re-activate its membership, is Morocco.
The total population of the AU is 895,800,000.
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Political system [edit]
The AU is composed of fifty two republics, and two kingdoms. In its history more monarchies existed but they were abolished.
Membership [edit]
List [edit]
Membership suspended Membership withdrawn
| Flag |
African Union State |
Accession |
Population |
Area (km²) |
Capital |
Language(s) |
Notes |
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Algeria | 1963-05-25 | 33,769,669 | 2,381,741 | Algiers | Arabic | |
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Angola | 1979-02-11 | 16,941,000 | 1,246,700 | Luanda | Portuguese | |
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Benin | 1963-05-25 | 6,769,914 | 112,622 | Porto-Novo | French |
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Botswana | 1966-10-31 | 1,639,833 | 600,370 | Gaborone | English Setswana |
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Burkina Faso | 1963-05-25 | 13,228,000 | 274,000 | Ouagadougou | French |
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Burundi | 1963-05-25 | 3,589,434 | 27,830 | Bujumbura | French Kirundi |
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Cameroon | 1963-05-25 | 17,795,000 | 475,442 | Yaoundé | English French |
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Cape Verde | 1975-07-18 | 503,000 | 4,033 | Praia | Portuguese | |
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Central African Republic | 1963-05-25 | 4,216,666 | 622,984 | Bangui | French Sango |
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Chad | 1963-05-25 | 10,780,600 | 1,284,000 | N'Djamena | Arabic French |
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Comoros | 1975-07-18 | 798,000 | 2,235 | Moroni | Arabic French Swahili |
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Côte d'Ivoire | 1963-05-25 | 18,373,060 | 322,460 | Yamoussoukro | French |
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Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1963-05-25 | 62,600,000 | 2,344,858 | Kinshasa | French |
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Congo-Brazzaville | 1963-05-25 | 3,999,000 | 342,000 | Brazzaville | French | |
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Djibouti | 1977-06-27 | 496,374 | 23,200 | Djibouti | Arabic French |
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Egypt | 1963-05-25 | 75,500,662 | 1,002,450 | Cairo | Arabic | |
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Equatorial Guinea | 1968-10-12 | 504,000 | 28,051 | Malabo | French Portuguese Spanish |
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Eritrea | 1993-05-24 | 4,401,009 | 117,600 | Asmara | Arabic English Tigrinya |
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Ethiopia | 1963-05-25 | 85,254,090 | 1,104,300 | Addis Ababa | Amharic English |
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Gabon | 1963-05-25 | 1,454,867 | 267,745 | Libreville | French | |
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Gambia | 1965-10 | 1,700,000 | 10,380 | Banjul | English | |
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Ghana | 1963-05-25 | 23,000,000 | 238,535 | Accra | English | |
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Guinea | 1963-05-25 | 10,211,437 | 245,857 | Conakry | French |
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Guinea-Bissau | 1973-11-19 | 1,586,000 | 36,544 | Bissau | Portuguese |
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Kenya | 1963-12-13 | 37,953,840 | 580,367 | Nairobi | English Swahili |
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Lesotho | 1966-10-31 | 1,795,000 | 30,355 | Maseru | English Sesotho |
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Liberia | 1963-05-25 | 3,489,072 | 111,369 | Monrovia | English | |
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Libya | 1963-05-25 | 6,173,579 | 1,759,541 | Tripoli | Arabic | |
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Madagascar | 1963-05-25 | 20,042,551 | 587,041 | Antananarivo | French Malagasy |
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Malawi | 1964-07-13 | 13,931,831 | 118,484 | Lilongwe | English Chichewa |
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Mali | 1963-05-25 | 11,995,402 | 1,240,192 | Bamako | French |
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Mauritania | 1963-05-25 | 3,069,000 | 1,030,700 | Nouakchott | Arabic |
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Mauritius | 1968-08 | 1,264,866 | 2,040 | Port Louis | English | |
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Mozambique | 1975-07-18 | 21,397,000 | 801,590 | Maputo | Portuguese | |
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Namibia | 1990-06 | 2,088,669 | 825,418 | Windhoek | English | |
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Niger | 1963-05-25 | 13,272,679 | 1,267,000 | Niamey | French |
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Nigeria | 1963-05-25 | 154,729,000 | 923,768 | Abuja | English | |
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Rwanda | 1963-05-25 | 10,186,063 | 26,798 | Kigali | English French Kinyarwanda |
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Sahrawi Republic (Western Sahara) | 1982-02-22 | 267,405 | 266,000 | El Aaiun (de jure) Sahrawi refugee camps (de facto) Bir Lehlou (temporary) |
Arabic Spanish |
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São Tomé and Príncipe | 1975-07-18 | 157,000 | 964 | São Tomé | Portuguese | |
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Senegal | 1963-05-25 | 11,658,000 | 196,723 | Dakar | French | |
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Seychelles | 1976-06-29 | 82,247 | 451 | Victoria | English French Seychellois Creole |
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Sierra Leone | 1963-05-25 | 6,294,774 | 71,740 | Freetown | English | |
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Somalia | 1963-05-25 | 9,558,666 | 637,661 | Mogadishu | Arabic Somali |
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South Africa | 1994-06-06 | 47,900,000 | 1,221,037 | Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative) |
Afrikaans English Southern Ndebele Northern Sotho Southern Sotho Swazi Tsonga Tswana Venda Xhosa Zulu |
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South Sudan | 2011-07-27 | 8,260,490 | 619,745 | Juba | English | |
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Sudan | 1963-05-25 | TBD | 1,886,068 | Khartoum | Arabic English |
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Swaziland | 1968-09-24 | 1,141,000 | 17,364 | Lobamba (royal and legislative) Mbabane (administrative) |
English Swati |
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Tanzania | 1964-01-16 | 45,000,000 | 945,203 | Dodoma | English Swahili |
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Togo | 1963-05-25 | 6,585,000 | 56,785 | Lomé | French |
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Tunisia | 1963-05-25 | 10,327,800 | 163,610 | Tunis | Arabic | |
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Uganda | 1963-05-25 | 30,900,000 | 241,038 | Kampala | English Swahili |
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Zambia | 1964-12-16 | 11,668,000 | 752,618 | Lusaka | English | |
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Zimbabwe | 1980-06 | 13,349,000 | 390,757 | Harare | English Ndebele Shona |
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Morocco | 1963-05-25 | 31,352,000 | 446,550 | Rabat | Arabic Berber |
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Accession [edit]
South Africa joined on 6 June 1994 after the end of the apartheid and the April 1994 general election.
South Sudan, which seceded from Sudan on 9 July 2011, joined the AU on 27 July 2011.[2] Following the announcement of the results of the South Sudanese independence referendum, an official AU statement noted "the AU will be keen, at the end of the interim period, on 9 July 2011, to welcome into its ranks the 54th member state of the Union".[3] It's the AU's most recent member state. Morocco is the only other African Nation (other than dependencies that are considered within the African Continent) that could join (or, more precisely, re-activate its membership).
Suspension [edit]
Currently three member states (Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, and Madagascar) have been suspended due to a coup d'état or political struggles.
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ Dixon, Robyn (2013-03-25). "African Union suspends Central African Republic after coup". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
- ^ "African Union Welcomes South Sudan as the 54th Member State of the Union", African Union, 2011-07-27. Retrieved on 2011-07-29.
- ^ "The African Union Applauds the Success of the Referendum in Southern Sudan". au.int. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
