The other Pan-Africanists

The Pan-African Parliament is seeking greater powers, clashing with Gadaffi's proposals for a continent-wide government

Amid the calls for an immediate union government for Africa by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi, this year’s African Union Chairman, many overlook the existence of the Pan-African Parliament, based in South Africa. The Addis Ababa-based AU is for the continent’s heads of state, and in his more radical days Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni dismissed its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity, as a ‘dictators’ trades union’. The PAP brings together a much wider range of politicians, views and interests.

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Libya, Moammar el Gadaffi, Ugandan, Yoweri Museveni, Swaziland, Marwick Khumalo, Zimbabwe, Britain, France, Germany, Chadian, Idriss Ndele Moussa, Gertrude Mongella, Angola, Nigerian, Bethel Amadi, Mary Mugyenyi, Algerian Laroussi Hammi, Joram Gumbo, Malawian, Mouvement Patriotique du Salut

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