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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has abandoned plans to suspend Burkina Faso from its membership after the newly-appointed President Michel Kafando was sworn in and the military designated the transfer of power on 21 November
©- - 18 november 2014 - 15:26:40 - thread African Union (419 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has sought China’s support towards its push for the inclusion of trade and industrialization agenda in the future UN plan to fight poverty, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), at talks with visiting Chinese officials
©- - 18 november 2014 - 13:42:55 - thread African Union (557 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has welcomed a decision by the military in Burkina Faso to appoint Michel Kafando the transitional President, shortly before a 15-day deadline of naming a civilian head of state was due to expire
©- - 17 november 2014 - 13:02:11 - thread African Union (478 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Committee of 10 Heads of State, preparing a common African position on UN Security Council reforms, is due to meet in Kenya Monday, the Kenyan foreign ministry said Friday
©- - 14 november 2014 - 12:51:02 - thread African Union (349 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Sudanese negotiators have kicked off talks in Addis Ababa to seek an immediate ceasefire to the continuing fighting in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile states, PANA reported Thursday
©- - 13 november 2014 - 11:24:54 - thread African Union (423 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has hailed Germany for providing assistance to universities in African countries to enhance research on effective land use and management
©- - 12 november 2014 - 14:57:47 - thread African Union (494 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Government said it would send an 8-member delegation from the ruling party leadership and other non-government parties to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in response to a proposal by the African Union (AU) to try to convince armed movements to take part in national dialogue
©- - 10 november 2014 - 12:30:00 - thread African Union (205 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU), the UN and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are launching a major bid to improve the management of land, which has been a source of conflict in Africa
©- - 07 november 2014 - 13:11:18 - thread African Union (609 words)


Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise several years of collaboration, according to a statement made available to PANA here Thursday
©- - 06 november 2014 - 08:58:39 - thread African Union (231 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has stepped up its Ebola response with the deployment of a team of medical workers to Guinea, one of the three countries affected by Ebola
©- - 05 november 2014 - 14:27:52 - thread African Union (417 words)


Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Industrialisation can be an important tool for poverty and hunger reduction but should not come at the expense of agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said
©- - 05 november 2014 - 11:21:44 - thread African Union (234 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - While an increasing number of Africans enjoy higher living standards, sub-Saharan Africa countries should redouble efforts to ensure crises such as the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa do not reverse development achievements, according to a report released here at the ongoing the African Economic Conference (AEC)
©- - 02 november 2014 - 13:16:23 - thread African Union (678 words)


Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - "Response to crisis in Africa must be global and based on the promotion of democratic governance as guaranteed by the African Charter outlined by the African Union," the Chair of the African Union Commission, Mrs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, warned in a message she sent Thursday to AU member countries
©- - 31 october 2014 - 12:07:49 - thread African Union (417 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -The African Union (AU) said Thursday it has dispatched a high-level team to hold talks with the authorities in Burkina Faso after daylong violence which saw protestors storm into parliament
©- - 30 october 2014 - 18:36:00 - thread African Union (277 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – African and world attention in general is on Tunisia as voters in the North African country go to the polls on Sunday to attest the promotion of democracy in that part of the continent, according to the African Union (AU)'s head of the Election Observation Mission, Cassam Uteem
©- - 24 october 2014 - 17:23:53 - thread African Union (241 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The number of African peacekeepers killed in Sudan's restive Darfur region has risen to more than 60 since deployment of the force in 2007, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Wednesday
©- - 22 october 2014 - 18:10:22 - thread African Union (303 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A two-day Africa Working Group meeting on disaster risk reduction opened Wednesday in Arusha, Tanzania, to discuss implementation of the new regional programme for Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Countries and Communities that is expected to be operational soon
©- - 01 october 2014 - 10:26:42 - thread African Union (627 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of this week's opening of the UN General Assembly's annual high-level session, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr
©- - 22 september 2014 - 18:31:53 - thread African Union (189 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) The Western troika member countries Friday welcomed efforts being made to reinvigorate the process of an inclusive national dialogue in Sudan and reiterated their support to the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) for facilitation of the process
©- - 19 september 2014 - 15:26:30 - thread African Union (260 words)


Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - President Issa Hayatou of the African Football Confederation (CAF) and African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma met Thursday in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital and seat of the AU, to discuss CAF's contribution to the realisation of the AU's "Agenda 2063"; the continental body's vision for Africa for the next 50 years
©- - 19 september 2014 - 12:23:59 - thread African Union (184 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Former Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo on Wednesday assumed the leadership of the Panel of the Wise, a critical pillar of the African Union's Peace and Security Architecture
©- - 18 september 2014 - 07:49:34 - thread African Union (358 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir has declared his support to the agreement recently reached in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between the National Dialogue preparatory committee and the Paris Declaration Group on their participation in the National Dialogue and Constitutional Process in Sudan
©- - 10 september 2014 - 17:08:08 - thread African Union (345 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA)- At the close of an emergency session here Monday, the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) agreed to lift all border closures and travel restrictions against West African countries battling the Ebola virus, which has killed more than 2,000 people in the region
©- - 08 september 2014 - 19:26:07 - thread African Union (499 words)


Osogbo, Nigeria (PANA) - The Electoral Institute (TEI), an organ of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has concluded arrangements to provide technical assistance to other electoral bodies in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU), according to its Director General, Prof
©- - 03 september 2014 - 08:40:45 - thread African Union (367 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) will hold a meeting with the Foreign Ministers of its 54-member states here on 8 Sept
©- - 02 september 2014 - 11:39:59 - thread African Union (308 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Six Presidents are due in Nairobi for the one-day African Union (AU) Peace and Security summit on terrorism, slated for Tuesday in the Kenyan capital, the country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued here Monday
©- - 01 september 2014 - 11:52:11 - thread African Union (512 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) troops have swept through an Al Shabaab military stronghold of Bulo Marer, 150km South of Mogadishu and the group's transit point  for smuggling explosives, after a heavy gunfight, the AU said Sunday
©- - 31 august 2014 - 14:50:41 - thread African Union (237 words)


Lomé, Togo (PANA) – A senior official of the African Union Commission has urged the Togolese civil society to take part in the electoral process of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) of the African Union so that they can "qualitatively" represent their country in the important organ of the continental body
©- - 15 august 2014 - 19:32:13 - thread African Union (261 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The African Union Mission for Mali and the Sahel (Misahel) has distributed several tons of relief food to over 500 families in Kidal region of northern Mali in the first phase of an operation dubbed 'Basket of the heart', the Mission said Tuesday in a statement sent to PANA here
©- - 12 august 2014 - 17:50:42 - thread African Union (208 words)


Melbourne, Australia (PANA) - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) have joined with global partners to launch the Diagnostics Access Initiative which calls for improving laboratory capacity to ensure that all people living with HIV can be linked to effective, high-quality HIV treatment services
©- - 30 july 2014 - 15:34:56 - thread African Union (626 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on Monday greeted Muslims across Africa on the occasion of the Eid-el-Fitr marking the end of the month-long fasting
©- - 28 july 2014 - 18:45:54 - thread African Union (246 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The chairwoman of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has expressed sadness at the news of the crash of the airplane, Air Algeria, Thursday at the border between Burkina Faso and Mali, according to a communiqué issued Friday by her office
©- - 25 july 2014 - 14:58:59 - thread African Union (176 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has expressed her condolences to the governments and people of The Netherlands, Malaysia and other nationals killed in the Malaysia Airlines that crashed on 17 July 2014 while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
©- - 20 july 2014 - 11:27:34 - thread African Union (203 words)


Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - French auto maker PSA Peugeot Citroen has said it will start producing cars in Nigeria in the second quarter of this year, after signing an assembly and sale of cars agreement with PAN Nigeria Limited, according to local media reports here Thursday
©- - 17 july 2014 - 10:22:56 - thread African Union (236 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has called for a cessation of hostilities by Israel and Palestine, and urged the UN Security Council to do its utmost to restore peace in the region
©- - 17 july 2014 - 10:08:49 - thread African Union (193 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Head of the AU Mission for Mali and the Sahel (MISAHEL), Pierre Buyoya, on Monday presented 20 vehicles, valued at US$ 1 million, to the Malian Interior and Security Minister, Gen
©- - 14 july 2014 - 17:49:09 - thread African Union (102 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) will intervene in areas where crimes against humanity and war crimes are committed and African leaders responsible for such crimes would be held accountable in the ensuing efforts to bring peace, officials said Friday
©- - 11 july 2014 - 12:22:20 - thread African Union (403 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - African Union (AU) envoy Dileita Mohamed Dileita has reaffirmed the support of the continental organisation to the democratic process in Libya and expressed the commitment of African countries to support Libya to find its rightful place on the continent
©- - 11 july 2014 - 10:54:55 - thread African Union (113 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya’s efforts aimed at promoting its democratic process are supported at regional and international levels, Mohamed Abdelaziz, the Libyan Foreign Minister, said while ensuring that the Arab League, the African Union (AU) as well as other organizations are also providing support to Libya
©- - 09 july 2014 - 17:41:11 - thread African Union (250 words)