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.
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/ 2 February 2010
African leaders on Tuesday wrapped up their annual summit less divided and looking at brighter economic prospects.
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/ 1 February 2010
African Union (AU) heads of state focused on rising tensions in oil-rich, secessionist southern Sudan on Monday.
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/ 31 January 2010
The African Union (AU) has selected Zimbabwe for a place on its Peace and Security Council, one of the bloc’s most powerful organs.
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/ 29 January 2010
After an awkward year with Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi as chairperson, many at the AU fear he will seek re-election.
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/ 21 January 2010
The AU’s top diplomat will present Madagascar’s bickering power-brokers with a fresh political compromise aimed at ending a year-long crisis.
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/ 14 January 2010
Key southern African leaders gathered in Maputo, Mozambique on Thursday for a special summit on the political crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
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/ 2 December 2009
The head of the AU’s troubled Somalia peacekeeping force expressed frustration on Wednesday at the failure of countries to honour troop commitments.
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/ 10 November 2009
The AU on Tuesday called on Madagascar’s political rivals to urgently implement a power-sharing deal reached last week.
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/ 29 October 2009
African leaders meet in Nigeria on Thursday to discuss an AU report on ways to resolve the six-year-long conflict in Sudan’s Darfur province.