This week’s AU summit will try to show a united front on Libya, even though calls are mounting within the grouping for Muammar Gaddafi to leave.
President Jacob Zuma will host the African Union Ad Hoc High Level Committee on Libya in Pretoria, the presidency said on Saturday.
Hillary Clinton has urged African leaders to abandon Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, saying it was time to live up to their pledges to promote democracy.
The African Union peacekeepers say their forces are on high alert a day after a suspected suicide bomber killed the country’s interior minister.
As the deadline for IMF chief nominations looms, the AU has called for a non-European from the developing world.
The US has urged AU countries to take advantage of a trade act which grants well-governed African states preferential access to the US economy.
Gaddafi’s forces have stormed the rebel-held city of Misrata, after the African Union said for the first time that the Libyan leader must step down.
When the government announced that President Jacob Zuma was planning yet another trip to Libya, several questions immediately came to mind.
Westerners have been filmed in central Libya in the first apparent confirmation that Nato has sent military advisers to train anti-government forces.
President Jacob Zuma’s report to the AU about his visit to Libya will highlight the arrest warrant issued by the ICC.
Five simultaneous suicide attacks targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials have said.
Nato aircraft destroyed the guard towers at Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, then staged a daytime strike on the city, a Nato official has said.
The Libyan regime has rejected calls from the G8 world powers for strongman Muammar Gaddafi to step down and will only deal with the African Union.
Libya’s PM says his government has asked the UN and AU to prepare and monitor a ceasefire, but ruled out the departure of strongman Muammar Gaddafi
The AU has called for a political solution to Libya’s conflict, weighing in once more on the crisis though its proposals have largely been ignored.
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The body of a fighter who appeared to be a member of the AU’s peacekeeping mission was pulled through Somali streets by a rope on Thursday.
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The International Criminal Court employs a "double-standard" by "exclusively" targeting African leaders, a top African Union official says.
The presidency on Sunday reaffirmed South Africa’s position with regards to the conflict in Libya, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
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Concern grew on Friday over Côte d’Ivoire’s worsening humanitarian crisis, with up to a million people fleeing post-election violence.
Both are grappling with regional integration, but remain poles apart.
The credibility of the fact-finding mission that the African Union will send to Libya has come under fire in South Africa.
Every year the AU adopts a theme to guide it in the realisation of its objectives.
Côte d’Ivoire presidential claimant Allasane Ouattara rejected on Friday an African Union call to share power with defeated president Laurent Gbagbo.
South Africa has done an about-turn on the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire, endorsing Alassane Ouattara as Ivorian president.
Alassane Ouattara headed on Wednesday to an African summit he expects will come up with ways to force his rival Laurent Gbagbo to hand over power.
The Presidency issued a statement on Wednesday evening saying that President Jacob Zuma is not ambiguous on the issue of Libya.
Côte d’Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo will skip African Union-hosted talks with his rival for the presidency, his party said on Tuesday.
Côte d’Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo on Monday ordered his government to take control over the country’s key cocoa sector.
Fighters allied with Côte d’Ivoire’s globally recognised president seized a western town held by his rival Laurent Gbagbo.