NAIROBI, Kenya The African Union's Somalia envoy said Wednesday donors have released only 30 percent of funds they pledged months ago toward bolstering Somalia's security, frustrating efforts to turnaround the lawless country. The AU envoy's statem
ADDIS ABABA - The African Union on Tuesday called on Madagascar's political rivals to urgently implement a power-sharing deal reached last week aimed at ending the country's protracted political crisis. Madagascar's current leader Andry Rajoelina,
ADDIS ABABA - The African Union said on Saturday it would not re-admit Madagascar until a newly agreed power-sharing government was in place and fresh elections in the pipeline. Earlier, the island's rivals signed a deal under which coup-instigato
ABUJA - African leaders on Thursday adopted proposals on how to resolve a six-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which include the creation of a hybrid court to try perpetrators of atrocities in the province. The conflict has claimed up to 300
ABUJA - African leaders went into talks on Thursday to discuss an African Union report on how to resolve a six-year-long conflict in Sudan's western Darfur province. Meeting under the auspices of the AU peace and security council, the leaders are
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - An African Union official is accusing Chinese investors of overlooking bad governance while doing business in Africa. Trade expert Festus Fajana's comments come more than a week after officials in Guinea announced a $7 bill
KAMPALA - The African Union's executive council has adopted a draft convention to protect and help refugees and displaced people, which will be put to AU heads of state and government on Thursday. In a statement received by AFP on Wednesday, the AU
ADDIS ABABA - The Darfur conflict can only be resolved by the Sudanese, former South African president Thabo Mbeki and the head of an African Union panel on the unrest said Thursday. The resolution of the conflict in Darfur has to be brought about
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