Au Commission

'It’s a purely sovereign decision of each country to join or to pull out,' Dlamini-Zuma said.

The AU chair is on a charm offensive to woo voters to the ANC — and support for her own ambitions.

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been elected to chair the African Union Commission. Here's what you need to know about the organisation.

Unlike in sport, the key battles taking place seem to have no clear resolution -- leaving us all at a loss.

A complex matrix of issues stymied Dlamini-Zuma's bid for Africa's top job.

Hullabaloo over AU Commission chairpersonship.

Sources say the same voter tactics will be adopted as were used against Muammar Gaddafi in order to get Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma elected to the AU.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday expressed alarm at reports of rising violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe and said he was consulting with African leaders on how to help resolve the country's election crisis. "I am deeply concerned at reports of rising levels of violence and intimidation" in Zimbabwe, he told reporters.

Zimbabwe's opposition on Monday mulled whether to contest a presidential election run-off after winning the first round as President Robert Mugabe's camp began gearing up for the ballot. "We are still putting things together and when we are ready, we will get the press informed," George Sibotshiwe, a spokesperson for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said.

Sudan will seek to head the African Union during the continental body's upcoming summit at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, a Sudanese official said. Sudan's two previous bids for the AU's rotating presidency have been unsuccessful due to reservations over Khartoum's rights record in the western region of Darfur.

African diplomats presented a united front on Saturday to support Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's presence at an upcoming European Union-Africa summit despite strong European reservations. "The African Union wants all African countries to take part" in the summit in Lisbon in December, an official from the body's headquarters in Addis Ababa said.