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  • Vol 48 No 14
  • 06/07/2007

Nkrumah's second coming

Fifty years after Ghana's leader mooted plans for a United States of Africa, the Accra summit replays the arguments without conclusion

  • Vol 48 No 14
  • 06/07/2007

THE GADAFFI CARAVAN MOVES ON

More than any other leader at the summit, apart from host John Kufuor, the Libyan leader, Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi, had prepared meticulously for the Grand Debate. As the self-proclaimed author of the African Union in 2002, El Gadaffi has been pressi...

  • Vol 48 No 3
  • 02/02/2007

The snubbing of Sudan

Delegates bar President Omer from the AU Chairmanship but fail to step up pressure for UN peacekeepers in Darfur

  • Vol 48 No 3
  • 02/02/2007

Ghana's gain

The election of President John Kufuor to the Chairmanship of the African Union was a personal victory for his Foreign Minister and presidential aspirant, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

  • Vol 48 No 2
  • 19/01/2007

How to run a continent

Grand plans for a new African development agency are on the agenda for the AU summit on 22-24 January

  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

Peace and security

The African Union faces a double test – in Sudan and now in Somalia

  • Vol 47 No 21
  • 20/10/2006

Contretemps

The rivalry between the African Union (AU) and the New Programme for Africa's Economic Development (NePAD) resurfaced at a conference on China in Africa, organised by the South African Institute of International Affairs and Royal African Society, on 16...

  • Vol 47 No 14
  • 07/07/2006

Posturing outweighs the policy

The Banjul summit failed to make progress on the main security and economic issues facing Africa

  • Vol 47 No 14
  • 07/07/2006

Pomp and patronage

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, for many it was a return to the bad old days of the Organisation of Afri...

  • Vol 47 No 11
  • 26/05/2006

Konaré's stopover

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 discussions by African Union Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré and British Prime ...

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