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.
The United Nations warns that violence is spreading across Côte d’Ivoire, far from the city where the country’s political rivals are squaring off.
Supporters of Côte d’Ivoire’s internationally recognised president called on Sunday for another general strike to get incumbent Gbagbo to stand down.
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/ 14 January 2011
Separatist movements in Africa are watching the referendum in South Sudan and its likely outcome – secession from Khartoum — with interest.
Côte d’Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo has defied a global avalanche of criticism, insisting he is the true president of his country.
Ivorian leader told Mbeki that Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election had been rigged and that the outcome could not be trusted.
Regional bodies, businesses and locals grappled with the political crisis enveloping Côte d’Ivoire with defeated Laurent Gbagbo refusing to step down.
Former president Thabo Mbeki will on Tuesday hand a preliminary report on his emergency mission to Côte d’Ivoire to the chairman of the African Union
Airport sources said Thabo Mbeki arrived on Sunday in Abidjan on an emergency mission to mediate after Côte d’Ivoire’s disputed presidential election.
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/ 1 December 2010
The AU expressed confidence in Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir — wanted by the ICC — as well as his vice president to ensure peace in the country.
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/ 29 November 2010
Sudan announced it would boycott the African-European Union summit in Libya to "avoid embarrassment to Libya".
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/ 9 November 2010
Ugandan police issue a warning they will shut down public places that have not implemented anti-terrorism guidelines.
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/ 1 November 2010
Officials report an attack by Islamic militants against government soldiers in the Somali capital has left at least 15 people dead.
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/ 23 October 2010
Tension arising from the UN Security Council’s reliance on African nations to supply peacekeepers came into sharper focus on Friday.
Eleven reporters have been killed in Somalia in just two years — uniquely dangerous conditions under which media workers operate.
Deputy minister says SA would have voted against Iran sanctions at UN Security Council
Uganda’s president has urged African leaders to unite agaisnt terrorism just weeks after Somali militants set off deadly twin bombings in Kampala.
African countries are divided about whether they should arrest Sudan’s president on suspicion of genocide, diplomats at a summit said on Sunday.
Somali Islamist insurgents have killed two African Union peacekeepers in fighting in the capital, Mogadishu.
Twin bombs tore into crowds watching the World Cup final in the Uganda capital, killing 64 and wounding scores on Sunday,
Four South African peacekeepers have been kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region, in the largest single abduction of foreigners in the war-torn region.
The Pan-African Parliament, Africa’s fledgling continent-wide legislature, opened its second session on Monday with a call for full law-making power.
Niger’s military plans to run the country until politicians agree on a new Constitution and are ready for fresh elections.
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/ 11 February 2010
The African Union on Thursday urged the military in coup-prone Nigeria to respect a decision to hand power to the country’s deputy leader.