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.
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.