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.
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/ 22 October 2009
Africa’s technocrats and politicians are converging in Kampala to tackle one of the continent’s most pressing problems: refugees.
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/ 19 October 2009
ICC prosecutors said on Monday Sudanese Darfur rebel leader Bahr Idriss Abu Garda deliberately ordered the killing of 12 AU peacekeepers.
The African Union (AU) called on Madagascar’s feuding leaders on Tuesday to resume negotiations and establish a consensus government.
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/ 17 September 2009
Two big explosions rocked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding several troops, witnesses said.
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/ 10 September 2009
The AU called for calm in Somaliland on Thursday after lawmakers scuffled in Parliament and one drew a pistol in an angry dispute.
Delegates from the 52 countries that make up the African Union gathered on Monday to address their continent’s crises during a one-day summit.
The African Union will on Monday hold a special summit in Libya on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Moammar Gadaffi’s coup.
When African leaders discussed economic growth in Africa at this week’s African Union Summit, their options were constrained by the Aids epidemic.
SA will support the IAEA newly appointed director general Yukiya Amano’s dedication to the elimination of nuclear weapons, Abdul Minty said on Friday.
African leaders reached a compromise early on Friday on the powers of a new regional authority that will coordinate key policies.
Hardline Islamist insurgents in Somalia’s capital fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace and attacked AU peacekeepers on Saturday evening.
The African Union on Friday called on the UN to impose sanctions on Eritrea over its support for Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
The Darfur war has gone from intense fighting in 2004 when tens of thousands were killed to ”a low-intensity conflict” with about 150 deaths a month.
South Africa sets an exemplary standard for elections, observers to the elections told the Mail & Guardian Online on Wednesday evening.
This was not how Moammar Gadaffi wanted to start his tenure as chair of the African Union.
Madagascar was suspended from the African Union and threatened with sanctions on Friday, days after the army-backed toppling of the president.
Zambia on Wednesday became the first AU member to call for Madagascar’s suspension from the bloc after Marc Ravalomanana was toppled as president.