SA delegates emerged from their failed bid to win the AU chair, dancing. Does this further seal the country’s image as a petty continental bully?
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/ 29 January 2012
The African Union’s new chairman faced tough challenges as UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that the Sudan crisis threatened regional security.
President Goodluck Jonathan has considered enteingr the race for chairperson of the African Union after Gambia pulled out of the running this week.
It’s a tight race for the position of AU head, but South Africa is insisting it is optimistic its powerful candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma can do it.
The AU is going to ratify a document
that could usher in a new age of democracy and accountability.
Although we would miss Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Cabinet, the <i>M&G</i> feels she is the perfect candidate for the chair of the African Union.
President Jacob Zuma and his delegates are preparing themselves for the 18th session of the African Union, focusing on boosting intra-African trade.
The delayed reaction to last year’s drought crisis in East Africa exacerbated the heavy loss of lives.
South Africa is pushing its campaign for Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to head the African Union, a key post to be decided next week.
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/ 17 January 2012
African Union chairperson Jean Ping has announced Africa’s economic growth for 2011 has positive, with an average growth of between 5.5% and 6%.
President Zuma has told the UN Security Council that the AU and UN must institutionalise their relationship to better prevent and resolve conflicts.
South Africa will be president of the UN Security Council for the month of January, a position it will use to strengthen ties between the UN and AU.
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/ 13 December 2011
African states have been told they need to change they way mining regimes have been set up in order for it to contribute to development.
Gambia’s Fatou Bensouda will be elected the ICC’s chief prosecutor as the hunt for war criminals and genocidal masterminds becomes more political.
President Jacob Zuma has said at an AU panel that Nato’s campaign in Libya left a scar on the continent that will take a long time to heal.
While Jacob Zuma has congratulated the DRC for successfully holding its elections, protesters have accused him of overlooking election fraud.
The president’s international relations adviser, Lindiwe Zulu, on Malema, Zimbabwe and the United Nations.
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/ 18 November 2011
South Africa is running into heavy diplomatic weather as its latest bid for expanded influence on the continent sets sail.
After al-Shabaab’s retreat from Mogadishu, residents displayed a new sense of security by flocking to the beaches for the first time in three years.
Former president Thabo Mbeki says recent events in Libya should raise alarm bells about the threat to Africa’s hard won right to self-determination.
Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital after African Union-backed Somali troops moved towards al-Shabaab-occupied areas of Mogadishu.
South Africa’s failure to integrate with other African countries is limiting its economic growth, says Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba.
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/ 30 September 2011
The role of various African countries in Gaddafi’s demise is far from clear cut.
South Africa has joined the AU in recognising the National Transitional Council as Libya’s government, saying the NTC had addressed its main concerns.
Madagascan parties have signed an agreement allowing the return of Marc Ravalomanana whose 2009 ouster plunged the country into political paralysis.
President Zuma says the AU will not recognise Libya’s National Transitional Council while there is still fighting in the country.
Many lives could have been saved if the African Union had been allowed to carry out its initiatives on Libya, says President Jacob Zuma.
Former president Thabo Mbeki says the Libyan conflict could’ve been stopped sooner if the western world had listened to African leaders.
A civil society group has criticised the United States for trying to be the "policeman of the world" and interfering in the affairs of other nations.
African Union solutions to African issues have been ignored by the rest of the world — but that does not mean the AU is weak, says Thabo Mbeki.
Foreign military intervention has caused too much suffering in Africa, says the AU’s chair, in a message seen as a jab at Nato’s airstrikes in Libya.
African Union leaders opened a two-day summit on Thursday overshadowed by the conflict in Libya and an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi.