Organisation of African Unity
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- Vol 42 No 14
- 13/07/2001
The last summit
At least two years of tough negotiations and fund-raising lie ahead if the new African Union is to win credibility
- Vol 42 No 14
- 13/07/2001
Map meets compass
One of the African Union's first tests will be to agree on an economic recovery plan and - harder - implement it. Amid the wreckage of earlier plans, the new big idea is to merge two more: the free-market, free-trade Millennium Africa Plan (MAP), sponsore...
- Vol 42 No 14
- 13/07/2001
Gadaffi's big tent
Irritating Western powers is an enduring spectator sport in Africa as the continuing interest in Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi shows (AC Vol 42 No 11). Addressing several hundred activists and students in a tent outside the Libyan People's Bureau (Embassy) i...
- Vol 41 No 15
- 21/07/2000
Unity Gadaffi-style
African unity was not much advanced when the Organisation of African Unity met in Lomé last week. The host was Togo's controversial President Gnassingbé Eyadéma backed by Libya's even more controversial Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi, (wh...
- Vol 41 No 4
- 18/02/2000
Fudge all round
Finding a suitable name was the toughest job behind the 11 February announcement of a Europe-Africa summit in Cairo on 2-3 April. Portugal holds the European Union's six-monthly rotating presidency and its Foreign Minister, Jaime Gama, fulfilled an old am...
- Vol 40 No 15
- 23/07/1999
Tougher talk
Africa's big three - Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa - focused the summit on peace talks and ending military rule
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