The tiny but resource-rich country has remained a pseudo state that is still run from Paris
Ali Bongo, has been in hospital for more than three weeks. Now the vice president’s powers have been extended to "ensure the continuity of the state"
With the president out of the country and gravely ill, the government’s intransigence is costing its people a chance of freedom long denied
Closer collaboration between the AU and the UN in peacekeeping operations is a critical issue.
After four years as AU chairperson, former cabinet minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will be returning to South Africa.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has committed to building unity on the continent after a controversial vote in which she unseated the AU Commission incumbent.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has won a tightly contested vote to become the new head of the African Union Commission – the first woman to hold the post.
Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is set to once again challenge Gabon’s Jean Ping for the leadership of the African Union this week.
Leaders of eight African Union countries failed on Saturday to break a deadlock over the leadership of the 54-member body.
The SADC have announced they would back Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s attempt to be elected the new AU chief in fresh polls to be held in June.
Southern African foreign ministers discussed the deadlocked polls for a new African Union head and to chart the bloc’s strategy for the next vote.
Election of new AU Commission chairperson ends in a stalemate.
The deadlock for the AU chair has crowded out important issues such as the political situation in Somalia and left the AU in limbo.
A vote to choose a new chairperson for the African Union’s Commission has ended in deadlock and a new election will only be held in June.
Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will run again for the position of African Union Commission chair at the next AU Summit in June.
The AU is going to ratify a document
that could usher in a new age of democracy and accountability.
Although we would miss Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Cabinet, the <i>M&G</i> feels she is the perfect candidate for the chair of the African Union.
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.
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/ 17 January 2012
African Union chairperson Jean Ping has announced Africa’s economic growth for 2011 has positive, with an average growth of between 5.5% and 6%.
The AU has denounced reports of racist attacks in Libya, urging the new rebel government there to disassociate itself from the violence.
The International Criminal Court employs a "double-standard" by "exclusively" targeting African leaders, a top African Union official says.
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/ 31 January 2011
African Union Commission chief Jean Ping said on Monday Somalia’s transitional government had failed to deliver.
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
Former president thabo Mbeki has been requested by the African Union to help resolve the Côte d’Ivoire presidential dispute.
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/ 12 December 2008
AU chief Jean Ping said on Friday he wants AU peacekeepers to remain in Somalia, adding that a withdrawal was ”something we cannot accept”.
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/ 13 October 2008
The African Union will become more involved in finding a durable peace in the conflict-torn DRC, says its chief, Jean Ping.
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/ 12 October 2008
AU chief Jean Ping on Saturday met DRC President Joseph Kabila and other officials to try to end fighting in the volatile east.
The end is in sight for negotiations between Zimbabwe’s rival leaders, President Thabo Mbeki told the SADC summit in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Despite setbacks, the AU is making steady progress in bringing the continent’s conflicts to an end.
African Union Commission chief Jean Ping will meet South African President Thabo Mbeki on Friday to discuss Zimbabwe’s political crisis.
AU Commission chief Jean Ping was rushed to hospital on Monday in Japan where he was attending a summit with the G8 powers.
African states have been urged unite to reduce the impact of soaring food prices that have hit their citizens harder than the rest of the world.