The “State of the Continent” event for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was farcical, but it reveals the government’s intentions.
The African Union Commission chairperson says countries can benefit from allowing citizens to move freely across borders.
The DA told the high court in Pretoria that only Parliament could decide to withdraw from a treaty which the country had entered into.
The organisation has to put the welfare of people first if it is to achieve the goals of Agenda 2063.
Pan-African organisation approves a decision allowing the intergovernmental body to organise the continent’s main football tournament.
The trial and judgment on the continent has been hailed by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and other countries and organisations.
A renewed bilateral commitment brings Berlin’s total assistance to the African intergovernmental body to more than €500-million.
They say the president’s distanced attitude and the AU chair’s appointment of a biased mediator feeds into DRC leader Kabila’s bid to delay elections.
The Gambia’s justice minister is to talk about human rights at the Pan-African Parliament.
The AU is making efforts to popularise the use of a single African passport for travel across the continent.
After four years as AU chairperson, former cabinet minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will be returning to South Africa.
If Islamic State consolidates its foothold in Libya, it will pose a major threat to North Africa and Europe.
President Jacob Zuma will lead a high-level delegation tasked with facilitating talks in the conflict-ridden country.
The trouble is Mugabe probably knows that, according to international laws, he’s not much better than those he is criticising.
Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has tried to improve it, but the AU is saddled with systemic problems.
If she brokers peace in Burundi her return to domestic politics will be triumphant.
Senegal’s president, Macky Sall, has what it takes to be considered the serious face of the continent.
Politicians defend Omar al-Bashir fleeing an ICC arrest warrant, saying the court is a bully and targets Africa. Karen Williams disagrees.
South Africa is considering withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, but only after all other avenues have been exhausted.
These African crimes are not a fabrication of the ICC’s imagination. Leaders should consult the masses whose own national courts often fail them.
The Omar al-Bashir saga will probably not affect the African body’s relations with donor nations, according to pundits.
But the African body has plotted a path towards "owning the budget" within the next five years.
We signed both the Rome Statute and the African Union protocol that sitting heads of state would not be prosecuted – surely a policy contradiction.
African Union representatives have called the South African court action to arrest Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir a waste of the body’s time.
The whereabouts of Sudanese President Al-Bashir were still not known on Monday morning, more than 12 hours since the first report that he had left SA.
Is Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir — wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity — in South Africa for the AU summit?
Kenyan president calls for plans to "rejuventate" the African Peer Review Mechanism.
African leaders gathered in Sandton for the Nepad heads of state meeting on Saturday were told that the continent had a lot to celebrate.
SA’s hosting of the African Union summit brings a responsibility to address the continent’s most pressing human rights and humanitarian issues.
African leaders have signed a historic agreement to create the continent’s largest common market, encompassing 26 countries.
The African Union believes it could fund its own programmes if it was not losing so much money through illicit outflows of capital from the continent.
May 25 is Africa Day. It is neither a day for Afropessimists to gloat nor one for Afro-optimists to say the African dream has been achieved.