Vol 47 No 14 | AFRICAN UNION Pomp and patronage 7th July 2006 For host President Yahya Jammeh, the Banjul summit was the most successful African Union meeting ever. With 33 heads of state in Banjul, it was one of the best attended. However, f...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDANAFRICAN UNIONBRITAIN Konaré's stopover 26th May 2006 NATO had offered to provide 'substantial support' to the African Union in Darfur under new arrangements to strengthen its peacekeeping operation there, said a communiqué following ...
Vol 47 No 3 | AFRICAN UNION Human wrongs 3rd February 2006 Sudan's failed bid to win the chair of the AU keeps peace and security issues off the agenda The African Union's credibility took a beating at its Khartoum summit on 23-24 January. The meeting was dominated by the Sudanese regime's attempt to secure the chairmanship, withd...
Vol 46 No 14 | AFRICAN UNION Debt and security 8th July 2005 Starting inauspiciously with a call by host and Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to African leaders 'not to beg at the doorstep to reduce debt', the African Union summit 4-...
Vol 43 No 22 | AFRICAN UNION Peering in 8th November 2002 Some African leaders don't want their political behaviour monitored. That is inconvenient for the New Partnership for Africa's Development: its central premise was that Africa shou...
Vol 43 No 14 | AFRICAN UNION Part of the union 12th July 2002 Old quarrels and an old reluctance to pay union dues mark the rebranding of the OAU South Africa won a narrow points victory in the battles surrounding the launching of the African Union (AC Vol 42 No 14) in Durban this week. At stake is the old Organisation of Af...