Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has urged feuding Sudanese tribal groups to cease the hostilities which have left dozens dead
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Leaders of 11 African countries and four regional and international organizations on Sunday signed a peace deal which they hope will bring peace to the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) rose from its first meeting on the stalled political process in Madagascar in 14 months, with a call on Malagasy politicians to implement the political roadmap leading to presidential elections in July this year
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union (AU) on Friday welcomed the new Government of National Unity in the Central African Republic (CAR), calling on partners to spare no efforts in implementing agreements reached in Libreville, Gabon, early this year
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has given the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) 800 million Sudanese pounds (about US$ 130 million) as its commitment to efforts to remove the obstacles militating against the implementation of an agreement reached between it and groups of Darfur Rebel movement
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union (AU) on Thursday condemned the killing of Tunisian opposition leader, Chokri Belaid, and the subsequent death of a police officer, saying the acts were undermining efforts to complete the political transition process in the North African country
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has expressed shock and sadness at the worsening humanitarian situation in Southern Africa, specifically in Mozambique where the death toll from floods has reached 68, and displaced 170,000 people
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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Saying that Africa has come of age and should be able to resolve its own problems without foreign assistance, President Alpha Conde of Guinea has slammed the current French military intervention in Mali
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has expressed its satisfaction at the African Union Peace and Security Council's (AUPSC's) decision to ensure that the dispute between Juba and Khartoum is handled at the continental level, rather than allow foreign intervention
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African leaders rose Monday from two days of intensive talks on the conflicts affecting the continent with a resolve to pep up the continent's response to the crises by making the African Standby Force (ASF) a reality
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) –A special brigade of some 2,000 soldiers, which will be set up within the United Nations Mission for the Stabilization of Congo (MONUSCO), will be headed by a Tanzanian official
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Addis Abeba, Ethiopia (PANA) – African leaders on Monday threw their weight behind the candidature of Djiboutian Rachad Farah for the position of Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural organisation (UNESCO) which would decided on in October
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Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African leaders ended their meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Monday with a pledge of US$50 million for the Mali International Support Mission (MISMA)
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The Prime minister of the Libyan interim government, Ali Zidane, on Monday held talks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with the Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, during the just-ended African Union summit
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has appealed to African male leaders to join his campaign to end violence against women, specifically rape and sexual violence in conflict
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Chairperson and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has launched a celebration of the continental organisation's Golden Jubilee, saying the event has a special significance for the people and government of Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN will deploy an international peacekeeping operation in Mali once the armed operation to oust Islamist insurgents is over, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced here Sunday
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African countries need to mobilise enough domestic resources and speed up their efforts to reduce the current levels of maternal and infant mortality on the continent, according to heads of state and government gathered here for the 20th ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU)
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Speaking on the sidelines of the 20th Summit of the African Union (AU), which began here Sunday, Senegalese President Macky Sall has called on Ivorians to continue their political dialogue until they can achieve national reconciliation, since his mediation mission in Côte d'Ivoire had ended
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn took over the Chairmanship of the African Union (AU) on Sunday, with a pledge to work towards the execution of various plans, including AU's internal reforms
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) foreign ministers have elected new members to the Peace and Security Council, bringing on board Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Nigeria and Uganda, diplomats said here Sunday, the opening day of the 20th AU summit
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Africa has the experience to forge solutions to its own challenges and contribute to global goals of inclusive growth, social justice and protecting the environment, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told African leaders here Sunday at the opening session of the 20th Summit of the African Union (AU)
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African leaders opened the 20th session of the African Union (AU) Assembly on Sunday, with calls to urgently tackle rapid poverty, advance democracy and re-examine economic growth models to spur industrial growth
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Despite Tanzania's strength in political stability and national unity, the East African country faces the challenge of sustaining the nearly 50-year Union created out of the merger of Tanganyika (on the mainland) and the off-coast Isles of Zanzibar, according to a review report released here by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn will make his first appearance at the African Union (AU) Summit Sunday, and will then assume the rotating AU presidency
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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso left Brazzaville Saturday for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to attend the 20th AU Summit scheduled for 27-28 Jan
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has renewed its call for all its member states to contribute directly to the Malian army to better equip it against an Islamist insurgency in the northern part of the country
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As African leaders fly into the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, this weekend for the 20th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly, leading civil society organisations (CSOs) present here have said they want the 50th anniversary of the Pan-African organisation to be marked by decisive actions for lasting peace on the continent
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Heads of State and Government constituting the Orientation Committee (HSGOC) of the New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) started their 28th meeting here Saturday, underlining the need for all African countries to strengthen the modest gains of the continent in the fields of agriculture and infrastructure development
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Congolese rebel movement, M23, has continued to threaten the city of Goma, in eastern DRC, despite its purported withdrawal from the city, Congolese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Francophonie Raymond Tshibanda said Thursday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Mauritian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and International Trade, Arvin Boolel, Thursday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, expressed his country’s willingness to host a conference for the reconstruction of the conflict-stricken Madagascar
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki left Friday for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a a three-day official visit, the Presidential Press Service (PPS) said
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Armed groups in eastern DRC have been denying international charities easy access to conflict-affected people living in the areas they control, Emmanuel Kabengele of the National network for security sector reform, said on Friday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African heads of state and government, for the 20th ordinary summit of the African Union (AU), must take bold steps towards peace in eastern DR Congo, the international humanitarian agency, Oxfam, said Friday
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The donors' conference slated to hold in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29 January, aims to raise US$500 million to support ongoing efforts to assist Mali to restore its sovereignty over the northern part of the country that was seized by armed Islamist groups last year, PANA learnt from sources close to the organisers here Friday
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African leaders must be held accountable to make sure the continent benefits from natural resources currently being exploited by foreign conglomerates, a senior official of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said here Friday
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African leaders started arriving in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Friday, for Sunday's African Union (AU) summit that is expected to deal with renewed conflicts in the Central African Republic (CAR), Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Somalia as well as Sudan and South Sudan
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Around 7,000 Malians have arrived in refugee camps in the country's neighbouring countries since the 11 Jan
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - An exhibition showing the atrocities of the war in northern Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has opened in the main hall of the new headquarters of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As African nations mark the 50th anniversary of their unity this year, they should give the continent's young people hope for and a stake in the future, African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said here Thursday
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Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian interim president, Dioncounda Traoré, leaves Bamako on Saturday for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, for the African Union summit of heads of State and donors' conference for Mali, official sources told PANA
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - On the eve of the 20th African Union (AU) Assembly, a coalition of over 350 civil society organisations from Sudan, South Sudan and across Africa has appealed to African leaders to do all that is possible to end the violence and restore peace to the people of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile in Sudan
Meeting here Wednesday, the coalition said the war that has raged between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) for over 18 months cannot be allowed to claim more lives and endanger the chances of peace in the wider region
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The creation of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), one of the landmark declarations adopted by African leaders to bolster trade by 2017, will depend on the progress made by African regional blocs over the next year, a senior African Union (AU) official said Wednesday
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has promised a strong response to the Algerian hostage crisis which led to the killing dozens of captives, Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra said Tuesday
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie, one of the greatest athletes of all time, will return to the Austrian capital and compete in the half marathon, which will be staged parallel to the Vienna City Marathon on 14 April, according to the online RaceNewsService
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Ambassadors accredited to the African Union (AU) Monday kicked-started a preparatory meeting ahead of this month's AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, outlining priorities that include building on strategic partnerships to advance continental trade in the wake of the global economic slowdown
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will leave the capital city of Abuja Monday on a trip that will take him to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Ethiopia for the African Union (AU) Summit, the presidency said in a statement made available to PANA here Sunday
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Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma, arrived here Friday for a brief working visit to Angola
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