Traditional stakeholders Europe and the US are reassessing their commitments in Africa, generating new geopolitical realities for the African Union.
Closer collaboration between the AU and the UN in peacekeeping operations is a critical issue.
The organisation has to put the welfare of people first if it is to achieve the goals of Agenda 2063.
Pan-African organisation approves a decision allowing the intergovernmental body to organise the continent’s main football tournament.
Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has tried to improve it, but the AU is saddled with systemic problems.
The president will attend the summit, where the status of peace and security in Africa and the African Peer Review Mechanism will be discussed.
The African Union has closed ranks in demanding that the ICC drop criminal proceedings against sitting presidents.
The detention of the Chadian dictator is thanks in part to the body’s insistence that Senegal try him.
This week marks the 50th year since the founding of a continent-wide organisation that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from colonial masters.
They might have been driven out of Somalia’s second city, but Islamist militant group al-Shebab have a plan B. Nastasya Tay reports.