Foreign relations of the African Union

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

African Union Representational Mission to the U.S. in Washington, D.C.

Barack Obama greets Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, Chairman of the African Union, Blue Room during a U.S.–Africa Leaders Summit dinner at the White House, Aug. 5, 2014. White House photo by Amanda Lucidon.

The African Union maintains special diplomatic representation with the United States,[1] European Union, and as of 2022 has plans for a mission to the People's Republic of China.[2] In 2011, the United States Mission to the African Union donated a state of the art multimedia box to the cash-starved African Union in a formal ceremony, in which they also presented new interns who will be trained to use it.[3]

• Enlargement of the African Union
• Africa–United States relations
• Africa–China relations
• Africa–Soviet Union relations
• Africa–EU relations
• France–Africa relations
• Africa–India relations
• Africa–Japan relations
• Africa–North Korea relations
• Africa-South Korea relations
• Yugoslavia and the Organisation of African Unity