The Group of African States, or African Group, is one of the five United Nations regional groups and is composed of 54 Member States from the African continent. The African Group is the largest regional group, and compose 28% of all United Nations members.
The Group, as with all the regional groups, is a non-binding dialogue group where subjects concerning regional and international matters are discussed. Additionally, the Group works to help allocates seats on United Nations bodies by nominating candidates from the region.[1][2]
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The Group of African States, or AfricanGroup, is one of the five United Nations regional groups and is composed of 54 Member States from the African continent...
related to Ethnic groups in Africa at Wikimedia Commons African diaspora – People descending from indigenous Africans living outside Africa Bantu peoples –...
Africa (BOA) is a Moroccan banking conglomerate headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco, with banking operations in Morocco and eighteen other African countries...
The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, also referred to as AFCON 2025 or CAN 2025, is scheduled to be the 35th edition of the biennial African football tournament...
position in 2019. In 1964, South Africa was rejected by both the AfricanGroup and WEOG. South Africa joined the AfricanGroup after the end of apartheid....
population groups. The 2022 estimates were 81.4% Black or Indigenous South African, 7.3% White South African, 8.2% Coloured South African, and 2.7% Indian...
called Army GroupAfrica (Heeresgruppe Afrika, Gruppo d'Armate Africa) to manage the defence of Tunisia during the final stages of the North African Campaign...
name change from "Absa Group Limited" to "Barclays AfricaGroup Limited" was completed in August 2013. In 2017, the South African Public Protector, Busisiwe...
Democratic South Africa (CODESA)". South African History Online. Retrieved 24 July 2022. Corder, Hugh (1994). "Towards a South African Constitution". The...
Two for the AfricanGroup One for the Asia-Pacific Group One for the Latin American and Caribbean Group One for the Eastern European Group The five members...
Nations: The AfricanGroup. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0761845584. "The Executive Council | African Union". "Constitutive Act of the African Union"...
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution headquartered in...
South Africa 1855-1960. Hart. p. 242-3. ISBN 9781841130491. s. 34, Group Areas Act 1950 "Urban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown | South African History...
West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) was a West African multilateral armed force established by the Economic Community of West African States...
Africa who may have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people. The intermixing of different races began in the Cape province of South Africa,...
Council, the African Union is in charge of distributing the AfricanGroup's seats based on the African Union's subregions, and the AfricanGroup is the only...
geologically part of the African continent. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. African nations cooperate...
Look up African in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. African or Africans may refer to: Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: People who...
published since 2015. Dangote Group founder Aliko Dangote has topped the 2018 list. In 2018, there was a record of 23 African billionaires on the list. Billionaires...
the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions. African music includes the...
Nations Regional Groups. Permanent members Non-permanent members The ten non-permanent seats have the following distribution: AfricanGroup: 3 members Asia-Pacific...
in South Africa in the 1990s. Hip Hop the genre itself was created by African Americans during the early 1970s in The Bronx, New York. African Hip-hop...
European Seat Since 1966 Africa: AfricanGroup Asia-Pacific: Asian Group, since 2011 the Asia-Pacific Group EEG: Eastern European Group GRULAC: Latin American...
"Decisions of the Thirty-Eight Ordinary Session of the African Union Executive Council" (PDF). African Union. February 4, 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original...
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