African Union

After a fallow period for the African Union's regional diplomacy, the Chairperson of the AU Commission, Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat, has been working hard to restore its prestige an...

Although the African Union was unable to corral member states behind a common stance on trade negotiations with Europe in Addis Ababa last month, the European Union is just as divi...

The financing of the African Union has always been problematic for donors and the secretariat alike, with the goal of self-financing as distant now as ever. Despite member states s...

The contest for the chair of the African Union Commission is entering its most fevered stage as delegates gather in Addis Ababa for the annual summit from 22-31 January. Nkosazana ...

With Ghana, Mauritius and Rwanda, Kenya was one of the the first four countries to be subjected to 'peer review' by fellow African governments at the 2006 African Union summit in B...

As regional factions tussle for influence, finding a candidate to replace South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as Chairperson of the African Union Commission is proving a tortuous...

Between 17 December, when the African Union Commission decided to intervene in Burundi, and 31 January, when the AU summiteers in Ethiopia went home, the prospect of an unprecedent...

The African Union is making noises about deploying its long-awaited standby force to Burundi. Since it was formed in 2001, the mantra of the AU has been 'African solutions to Afric...

A diplomatic row has erupted over the failure of the United Nations and African Union to investigate reports that Sudanese troops and allied militia raped some 200 women and childr...

The cannons roared and the guns blazed as diplomats and politicians arrived for the African Union summit in Addis Abba on 24-31 January. The raging conflict and wanton killing in C...