It consists of a number of Commissioners dealing with different areas of policy.
The African Union Headquarters are in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The African Union Commission became a part of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in 2012.
[1] FOCAC is the main multi-lateral coordination mechanism between the African countries and China.
[2] Since joining FOCAC, the African Union Commission has increasingly played a coordinating role, although each African country in FOCAC continues to represent itself individually.