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Vol 48 No 2
19th January 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
15th December 2006

Peace and security

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

Vol 47 No 21
20th October 2006

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 16-17...

Vol 47 No 14
7th July 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
7th July 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 African ...

Vol 47 No 11
26th May 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 ...

Vol 47 No 3
3rd February 2006

Human wrongs

Sudan's failed bid to win the chair of the AU keeps peace and security issues off the agenda

Vol 46 No 14
8th July 2005

Debt and security

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 4-5 July ended with a sweeping proposal for the write-off of all of Africa's ...

Vol 43 No 22
8th November 2002

Peering in

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 should set its own political and economic targets, and that each state's record...

Vol 43 No 14
12th July 2002

Part of the union

Old quarrels and an old reluctance to pay union dues mark the rebranding of the OAU

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