Africa Day next week is an opportunity for universities to interrogate Western hegemony
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.
The South African team’s uneven performance in the United Nations Security Council is a mystery to many, writes <b>Sean Christie</b>.
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.
In part two of our armchair guide to foreign policy, <b>Sean Christie</b> delves into some of the most awkward parts of the country’s challenges.
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.
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/ 28 February 2011
South Africa called on the African Union on Monday to end the "excessive use of force against demonstrators" in Libya.
South Africa and the African Union have adopted a kid-gloves approach, failing to condemn Gadaffi.
A new Côte d’Ivoire militant group claims it killed 27 police and paramilitary forces loyal to the sitting president who refuses to cede power.
An upsurge in fighting in Côte d’Ivoire on Wednesday threatened diplomatic efforts to end a tug-of-war between rival claimants to the presidency.
Ivorian troops killed at least six protesters calling on Laurent Gbagbo to step down as leader on Monday as African presidents arrived in Abidjan.
Côte d’Ivoire’s incumbent leader filed a lawsuit on Monday against Ecowas for recognising his rival as the winner of the country’s elections.
President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday said South Africa remained a neutral mediator in Côte d’Ivoire’s political deadlock, the SABC reported.
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/ 1 February 2011
African leaders set a one-month deadline to solve Côte d’Ivoire’s political crisis as they wound up a summit on Monday.
It was business as usual as the AU’s two-day summit stuck to its planned schedule, despite the problems in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire.
<b>Adekeye Adebajo</b> reflects on the recent events in Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan and Tunisia in light of the AU’s biannual summit.
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/ 31 January 2011
African Union Commission chief Jean Ping said on Monday Somalia’s transitional government had failed to deliver.
African leaders said on Monday that Sudan and Somalia had not been forgotten at their annual summit, overshadowed by the crisis in Egypt.
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/ 31 January 2011
Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo replaced Malawi’s leader as African Union chairperson on Sunday.
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/ 27 January 2011
African leaders will try to bridge their divide over the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire as they meet for a summit this weekend.
The 53-nation African Union made another bid on Tuesday to end a dispute over the Côte d’Ivoire leadership.