In 1963, 32 independent states established the Organization of African Unity, and since the establishment of the African Union in 2002, the number of the members reached to 45. The goals of the Organization of African Unity were alluding to intensify and to strengthen the relations and vision of the African countries with the challenges that the continent was facing in the past half century, and the elimination of colonialism and racial discrimination. In the late 1990s, leaders discussed the need to adjust the organization`s vision to meet new challenges in changing world. In 2002 at the Durban summit, the African Union founded and held its first summit of heads of state and government, and continues its efforts to achieve its goals in the continent politically, economically, culturally and socially, and in 2014 the Agenda of 2063 was launched in which the priorities and projects identified in it strive to form a united continent.

The state of Qatar joined the African union in 2014 as an observer member, and cooperate in the security and social fields where the state of Qatar signed a MoU with the African union to evacuate African migrants from Libya and return them to their counties of origin with a financial grant of 20 million USD

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