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/ 25 September 2010
The African Union asked the UN Security Council on Friday to delay for a year the prosecution of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir.
Leaders of the African Union agreed at a summit on Monday to reinforce the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia to counter al-Shabaab insurgents.
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/ 19 February 2010
African Union chief Jean Ping on Friday condemned the military coup in Niger and said he was following developments "with concern".
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/ 10 September 2009
The AU called for calm in Somaliland on Thursday after lawmakers scuffled in Parliament and one drew a pistol in an angry dispute.
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/ 4 February 2009
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi’s drive to create a ”union government” for all of Africa has instead heightened divisions on the continent.
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/ 1 February 2009
The African Union (AU) has warned Madagascar’s opposition leader after he said he had taken power on the Indian Ocean island.
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/ 31 January 2009
The AU’s annual summit was to kick off Sunday with another year of crises likely to upstage an official agenda focused on infrastructure.
The military operation to oust the rebel leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan was hailed on Friday as a success by the African Union, in dire need of a boost to its conflict-resolution record. The first ever AU-backed plan to remove a renegade leader came after failed negotiations.
A fresh batch of African Union (AU) troops arrived on the Comoros island of Moheli on Friday, joining Comoran forces massed for a military offensive to retake the rebel island of Anjouan. The Indian Ocean archipelago — between Madagascar and Mozambique — did not recognise the re-election of Anjouan leader Colonel Mohamed Bacar in June 2007.
Thousands who fled the conflict in Darfur for safe refuge in Chad are now on the move yet again to escape unstable conditions in the Chadian capital, Ndjamena, shining the spotlight on the African Union’s inability to protect them. Since the AU’s inception in 2002, the pan-African body has lacked funds and leadership.