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Voters go to the polls in Ethiopia on Sunday with little doubt that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will stay in power.
After an awkward year with Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi as chairperson, many at the AU fear he will seek re-election.
Women jump up in their fluffy orange cotton skirts, waggling their shoulders at men who are swift to join the dance.
African leaders on Friday ratified a convention on the protection of the continent’s internally displaced people, refugees and returnees.
African Union peacekeepers have an acronym for the guerrilla war in Somalia — VUCA — meaning volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous.
The UN envoy for Somalia blamed Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys on Wednesday for recent fighting in Mogadishu.
The AU’s annual summit was to kick off Sunday with another year of crises likely to upstage an official agenda focused on infrastructure.
The mountainous region in north-eastern Ethiopia was ravaged by the border conflict that left about 80 000 dead between 1998 and 2000.
Every morning at dawn, Ethiopian soldiers poke long poles into the soil on the dirt track linking Badme with civilization, looking for landmines.
Comoran and African forces on Wednesday battled die-hard supporters of Anjouan’s fugitive strongman as the federal authorities pledged a transition government in the Indian Ocean…
A coalition of Comoran and African Union (AU) troops on Wednesday combed Anjouan hunting for its renegade leader after invading the Indian Ocean island the day before. The…
The African Union starts a heads-of-state summit in Addis Ababa on Thursday seeking to bolster the body’s capacity to solve conflicts such as the crises in Darfur and Somalia.…
Back-to-back bloody clan battles in Somalia — now spanning 16 years and worsened by nearly a year of insurgency — have wiped out basic services in Mogadishu, where the latest…
African diplomats presented a united front on Saturday to support Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s presence at an upcoming European Union-Africa summit despite strong…
Ethiopia entered the third millennium seven years after the rest of the world on Wednesday, amid lavish celebrations, religious fervour and messages of hope from the troubled…
The future of the African Union will come under scrutiny only five years after its creation at a summit this weekend where some heads of state will launch a push for a closer…
A summit of African Union leaders began in Addis Ababa on Monday, with Sudan receiving a public dressing-down over violence in Darfur. United Nations Secretary General Ban…
African leaders gather next week to debate the conflicts holding back development on the world’s poorest continent, as well as the threat of global warming. Africa has been…
Hundreds of dangling telephone cables bridge bullet-dented masts in downtown Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, but few can carry a conversation. Yet the city is a haven for…
Rwanda moved on Monday to clear vestiges of French interests in the country after breaking all ties with Paris in a major diplomatic row stemming from the Central African…
