The present Charter may be amended if a State party makes a written request to that effect
to the Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity. The Assembly of Heads of
State and Government may only consider the draft amendment after all the States parties
have been duly informed of it and the Commission has given its opinion on it at the request
of the sponsoring State. The amendment shall be approved by a simple majority of the
States parties. It shall come into force for each State which has accepted it in accordance
with its constitutional procedure three months after the Secretary General has received
notice of the acceptance.
Adopted by the eighteenth Assembly of Heads of State and Government June 1981 – Nairobi,
Kenya
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In force from 8 September 2026
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