Abuja Treaty, 12, 44, 49, 61, 127, 151, 276

AEC Treaty, 30, 146, 276, 278

African Charter for Popular Participation in Development, 31, 95

African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, 30, 35, 49, 112, 276, 279

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), 14, 67, 80, 235, 255

African Court of Human Rights (ACHR), 67, 81

African Court of Justice, 14, 40, 50, 112, 159, 276

African Development Bank (ADB), 44, 85, 136

African diaspora, 18, 29, 31, 40–41, 112, 143, 279, 282, 328, 333

African Economic Community (AEC), 11, 30, 44, 50, 61, 127, 146, 150–151, 276, 278, 329

African Governance Report (AGR), 384

African independence, 26, 31

African Integration Project, 24, 61, 162

African Peer Review (APR), 225–226, 231, 233–234, 238, 240, 247–260, 262, 264, 267, 270

African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), 5, 11, 24, 31, 35, 61, 84, 165, 168, 209, 224, 246, 276, 332, 373, 422

African Priority Programme on Economic Recovery (APPER), 109

African Union (AU), 4, 9, 39, 43, 59, 110, 124, 126–127, 145, 209, 246, 275, 347, 373

architecture, 275–293

challenges of, 51, 160–162, 166

effectiveness, 59, 61, 79, 86, 91–92

and EU, comparative analysis, 143–169

African Union Commission, 12, 113, 166

African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), 441

African, Caribbean and Pacific (Group of States) (ACP), 137

agricultural, 8, 17, 88, 102, 107, 109, 192–193, 297–300, 302, 304–315, 317–321, 325, 329, 334–337, 436

development, 17, 299–300, 311, 313–315, 318, 321, 325, 334–337

trade, 302, 337

AIDS.

al-Gadaffi, Muammar, 16, 33, 47, 438

Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), 325

Assembly of Heads of State and Government, 13, 47, 66, 68–69, 73, 83, 150, 159, 165, 275, 280–281, 384, 422