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/ 21 October 2005
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) on Thursday extended by three months the mandate of its protection force in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur amid escalating violence. The PSC adopted the decision to renew the mandate of its African Union Mission in Sudan until January 20, 2006.
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/ 15 September 2005
African Union officials were to launch a final round of peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Thursday to bring an end to slaughter and starvation in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur. AU mediator Sam Ibok told Agence France Presse that the opening ceremony would be held at around 6pm (5pm GMT) but could not confirm whether all the delegates had arrived.
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/ 13 September 2005
Civil society, business, labour and political parties are set to participate in South Africa’s evaluation under the African Peer Review Mechanism. Representatives of various sectors of society met in Pretoria on Tuesday to discuss their role in the review, which is expected to cost the country about R8-million.
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/ 9 September 2005
The African Union (AU) has urged the last active rebel group in Burundi to join the peace process aimed at ending more than a decade of devastating fighting in the impoverished central African nation. In addition, AU said the international community should sustain its support in order to consolidate achievements in Burundi’s democratisation process.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday urged divided African leaders to forge a consensus on United Nations reform to keep the continent from losing out if the UN Security Council is expanded. The African Union opened a one-day summit aimed at overcoming rifts on how many seats should be added to the council, among other issues.
Africa will dominate the United Nations Security Council agenda in July. The 15-nation body, under the presidency of Greek ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, will discuss the Ethiopia and Eritrea boundary deadlock. Later in the month it will hear oral evidence on the Democratic Republic of Congo and address the relocation woes of the Somali government.
The African Union on Friday rejected calls by Britain and the United States to intervene in Zimbabwe, where the president, Robert Mugabe, is conducting a slum clearance programme that has left hundreds of thousands homeless.
Nato ordered its planners to begin urgently drawing up proposals to help out in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than a million displaced. Nato has approved a request for help from the African Union, the pan-continental organisation, which has 2 600 troops on the ground.
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/ 24 February 2005
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council is to meet to consider further sanctions against the government of Togo, where the military installed Faure Gnassingbe as president to replace his late father. His accession has been deemed a power grab by much of the international community, further isolating the West African state.
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/ 14 February 2005
African Union officials will fly into Somalia on Monday to assess security ahead of the deployment of African troops to help restore an administration after 14 years of chaos. The trip had been scheduled to leave on Friday, but was delayed amid security fears after the slaying of a BBC journalist in Mogadishu last Wednesday.