Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when she last met the Chair of the African Union.

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission was a virtual guest at the G7 Foreign & Development Ministers meeting held in Liverpool in December 2021. Prior to that, the Foreign Secretary's predecessor met the Chairperson at the Africa Investment Summit in London in January 2020. During my visit to Senegal last November, I discussed priorities for Senegal's AU presidency with the Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs. I had a further meeting with the Minister in June 2022 at the Summit of the Americas. The Prime Minister also met Senegalese President Macky Sall at the G7 in June 2022.