Around 200 delegates from Africa and other regions of the world participated in the 84th Executive Committee Session and 47th Conference of the African Parliamentary Union (APU) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 18 to 22 November 2025.
The delegates came from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Djibouti, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Mozambique (as an observer), Niger, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Togo, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
The League of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds and Palestine, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the Youth Organisation for the European and African Union and the Consultative Council of the Arab Maghreb Union also participated as observers.
The APU, founded in 1976, aims to promote unity of action among the parliamentary institutions of African states; to establish itself as a forum for the national parliaments of the African continent and as an instrument of parliamentary dialogue and cooperation in the service of peace, democracy, good governance and sustainable development.
The organisation also aims to work towards the progressive establishment of a genuine African legal community based on the political, economic, social and cultural realities of the continent, as well as to promote contacts between African parliamentarians on the one hand, and between African parliamentarians and those from the rest of the world on the other.