Vol 6 (AAC) No 12 | AFRICAN UNION Jean-Baptiste Natama 2nd October 2013 Chief of Staff to the Chair of the African Union Commission The African Union wants to form strategic alliances with its international partners to afford the organisation the financial and administrative capacity to implement programmes acr...
Vol 53 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICAAFRICAN UNION Dlamini-Zuma takes charge 19th July 2012 South Africa finally won the battle for the AU Commission chair, amid high hopes for reform and more effective interventions Security crises in five countries and pressing economic problems confront the new Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Although she has three months...
Vol 53 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICAAFRICAN UNION A diplomatic coup in Addis 19th July 2012 Just hours before voting began for the new chairperson of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa on 15 July, veteran diplomats were predicting a repeat of the deadlock that ha...
Vol 53 No 11 | GABONSOUTH AFRICAAFRICAN UNION Entente absente 25th May 2012 Efforts to negotiate a compromise between Gabon and South Africa over the contest for the presidency of the African Union Commission are faltering. This is unlikely to be resolved...
Vol 52 No 3 | AFRICAN UNION Rewards and realpolitik 4th February 2011 Kenyan and Sudanese officials are claiming victory in their battle against the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court France and the United States are seriously considering the African Union (AU)'s requests to defer the International Criminal Court's prosecution of six Kenyan officials and Sudan's...
Vol 52 No 3 | AFRICAN UNION Summitry in a time of revolution 4th February 2011 Journalists at the African Union conference centre in Addis Ababa determinedly intruded on private grief as they quizzed the Egyptian Foreign Minister's press officer about just ...
Vol 51 No 3 | AFRICAN UNION No one writes to the Colonel 5th February 2010 After blocking Gadaffi’s bid for a second term as AU Chairman, the summiteers toughened their anti-coup rules and called for peacekeepers in Somalia The reign of Libya’s Moammar el Gadaffi as Chairman of the African Union has ended in a petulant whimper rather than in a big bang for African unity as the Colonel had promised. He...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 | AFRICAN UNION René N'guettia Kouassi 26th November 2009 Director, African Union Department of Economic Affairs By offering an alternative source of financing and diplomatic support, China has become a useful bargaining chip for African countries. Sounding a note of caution to African pol...
Vol 50 No 12 | AFRICAN UNION The other Pan-Africanists 12th June 2009 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-Africa...
Vol 50 No 3 | AFRICAN UNION Diversions and deviations at the Summit 6th February 2009 Pressing issues on Somalia, Sudan and the global financial crisis were sidelined by a protracted argument about continental government 'At least our meetings with Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi as Chairman won't be boring', said one official ruefully at the African Union's 1-4 February summit in Addis Ababa. As if to...
