| LC control no. | no2001048790 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | African Union |
| Variant(s) | AU (African Union) Union africaine União Africana UA (Union africaine) Ittiḥād al-Ifrīqī Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī Afrikan Union |
| See also | Predecessor: Organization of African Unity |
| Beginning date | 2002-07 |
| Found in | Constitutive act of the African Union, 2000. Da Organização da Unidade Africana (OUA) à União Africana (UA), 2003. Washington Post, July 9, 2002: p. A15 (the African Union officially comes into being on Tuesday [July 9], with South African President Thabo Mbeki as its first chairman; modeled loosely on the European Union, it will succeed the Organization of African Unity); July 10, 2002: p. A13 (the African Union was formally launched in South Africa's port resort of Durban with at least 40 of the continent's 53 presidents and monarchs in attendance) Economist (London, England : 1843), July 13th-19th, 2002: p. 41 (this week, Africa's leaders threw a party in Durban, South Africa, to bury the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and praise a new African Union (AU)) L'Union africaine face aux enjeux de paix, de sécurité et de défense, c2003: t.p. (Union africaine) al-Ittiḥād al-Ifrīqī fī ẓill al-niẓām al-dawlī al-jadīd, 2006: t.p. (al-Ittiḥād al-Ifrīqī) Afrikan Union, 2004. |
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