---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 290h–1"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "290h–1"
heading: "United States African Development Foundation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/290h-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XXIII — United States African Development Foundation"
---

# §290h–1. United States African Development Foundation

- (a) **Establishment of Foundation—** There is established a body corporate to be known as the “United States African Development Foundation” (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Foundation”).
- (b) **Principal and branch offices—** The Foundation shall establish a principal office in the United States and may establish such branch offices in Africa as may be necessary to carry out its functions.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–533, title V, § 503, Dec. 16, 1980, 94 Stat. 3152; Pub. L. 113–76, div. K, title III, Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 482.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–76 inserted “United States” before “African Development”.