That seems likely to persist now that Mali's Alpha Oumar Konaré has been replaced as President of the AU Commission by the Gabonese diplomat Jean Ping...
Vol 49 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Rumour has it that former President Alpha Oumar Konaré due to give up his presidency of the African Union Commission in February may re-enter Malian politics...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 6 |
- INDIA
- AFRICA
We do not want a cosmetic attitude but real funding for development and for Africa's democratisation ' former AU Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré stated leaving unspoken what many delegates emphasised off-the-record - that they were not going to replace one exploiter from the West with another from the developing world...
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade is proposing a new initiative and the AU is considering sending its Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré to mediate...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- UNITED NATIONS
This was heatedly disputed last week in New York with presidents such as Cote d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki together with the African Union Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré arguing forcefully for the end of foreign troop deployments in Africa...
African Union Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré's statement in Khartoum on 12 August that the planned 26 000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur would be entirely African and his criticisms of the United Nations raise more uncertainties about the operation already wracked by disputes (AC Vol 48 No 13)...
Vol 48 No 14 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Alpha Oumar Konaré the Chairman of the AU Commission strongly reflected that view...
Adada (61) the joint UN-AU Special Envoy agreed by AU Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's Foreign Minister for ten years and is a presidential confidant...
No matter the result of the elections African Union Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré sent a clear message to Conté on 15 May that his role should be only 'to prepare a transition for the time after his rule...
The big question for IBK was whether he could persuade the popular former President Alpha Oumar Konaré now head of the African Union Commission to endorse his candidacy...