The positions of AU Commission chairperson and deputy, as well as most of the six AU commissioners, are contested. The ...

The AU, founded in May 2001 and headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a union of 55 member states that work together to address major political, social and economic issues, including preventing ...

Conservative leaders such as Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie and Côte d’Ivoire’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny, backed by the US and ...

Three veterans of African politics are in the running for ... forced to rely on the European Union and other foreign partners. The UN has financed the AU Mission in Somalia since 2007, he added.

Abdelatty's remarks came ahead of the end of the current African Union Transition Mission in ... Eritrea and Somalia in a new regional alliance that was seen as excluding Ethiopia.

The chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has congratulated the military-led government of Gabon on a successful constitutional referendum. General Brice Oligui Nguema ...

The Alliance will have its governance linked ... Joining these countries are the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) plus the following international organizations: African Union ...

New partnerships spearheaded by the AU is looking to drive energy efficiency across Africa through key initiatives ...