Ethiopia in the African Union: a joining date of 25 May 1963 and the Union's headquarters at Addis Ababa

Background

The African Union observer mission to Ethiopia's general elections, reported elsewhere in this section, was run from the Union's own headquarters city, so the standing facts of that relationship are worth setting down.
The African Union lists the country as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, places it in Eastern Africa, and gives its joining date as 25 May 1963, the day the Organisation of African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa.
The African Union has its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at P.O. Box 3243, Roosevelt Street.
Addis Ababa, which means New Flower, lies almost at the centre of the country and is Ethiopia's capital.
Ethiopia is a federal republic in which the President is head of state and the Prime Minister is head of government.
Taye Atskeselassie, who had been Minister of Foreign Affairs, was made head of state during a parliamentary opening session, replacing Sahle-Work Zewde, whose six year term had expired.
Abiy Ahmed is the Prime Minister and chairs the Council of Ministers.