Historical Organization
African Union
African Union
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Organization Timeline
African Union Constitutive Act is adopted
📅 11 July 2000African leaders adopted the AU’s founding act, setting out goals of unity, integration, peace and sustainable development.
African Union is launched in Durban
📅 9 July 2002The AU succeeded the OAU, opening a new institutional phase of African integration and collective diplomacy.
Africa observes its first Traditional Medicine Day
📅 31 August 2003The first African Traditional Medicine Day was observed on this date to draw attention to traditional practitioners in health systems.
WHO calls for recognition of African traditional care
📅 31 August 2003On the first observance, the WHO regional office urged governments to formally recognize traditional medicine.
Traditional practitioners gain a regional advocacy day
📅 31 August 2003The newly instituted annual day offered a forum for discussion of African medical knowledge and health access.
African health systems debate traditional medicine
📅 31 August 2003The 2003 observance encouraged policy discussions on how traditional and conventional care could relate.
BRICS endorses African development and trade integration
📅 23 June 2022Leaders supported the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and Africa’s work toward the African Continental Free Trade Area.
BRICS endorses African industrialization and AfCFTA
📅 23 August 2023The declaration connected African trade integration with infrastructure, local value addition and moving beyond dependence on commodity exports.