Membership
Members
The following countries are members of the African Union:
Suspended members
Madagascar � suspended after 2009 Malagasy political crisis.
Former members
Morocco - left the AU's predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1984, when the majority of member countries supported the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (proclaimed by the Polisario Front in 1976 claiming the representation of the Western Sahara), resulting on SADR admission in the AU. Morocco's ally, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), similarly opposed the OAU's admission of the Sahrawi Republic, and the Mobutu regime boycotted the organisation from 1984 to 1986.[ Some countries have since retracted their support for the Sahrawi Republic.