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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has received a hero's welcome on her return to the country, following her election as the new head of the African Union (AU) commission
©- - 17 july 2012 - 12:47:04 - thread African Union (277 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has sworn in Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and the six commissioners recently elected to lead the regional body
©- - 17 july 2012 - 08:49:08 - thread African Union (295 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) says a military force, to be deployed to Mali, could hit the ground within weeks if the country’s interim President, Diancounda Traore, formally requests for security reinforcement from the UN Security Council
©- - 16 july 2012 - 19:32:54 - thread African Union (410 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Africa Union (AU) has established a permanent committee at the presidential level to promote Intra-African trade by pushing for the removal of trade barriers, ahead of the 2017 deadline for creating a continental Free Trade Area (FTA)
©- - 16 july 2012 - 13:24:59 - thread African Union (309 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson has stressed the importance of close and active cooperation between the UN and the African Union (AU) in tackling critical issues, from the instability in Mali to the food crisis in the Sahel region
©- - 16 july 2012 - 09:40:42 - thread African Union (605 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Right from the first round of voting by African leaders on Sunday, South Africa's Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma left few in doubt that she has what it takes to clinch victory over incumbent Jean Ping in the race for the presidency of the African Union (AU) Commission
©- - 15 july 2012 - 21:21:35 - thread African Union (457 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was elected the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission late on Sunday, after surging through all the four rounds of voting
©- - 15 july 2012 - 20:11:58 - thread African Union (97 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Summit opened in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Sunday to discuss trade, jobs and economic growth, but the conflicts in Mali, Guinea-Bissau and the DR Congo dominated talks
©- - 15 july 2012 - 13:57:15 - thread African Union (554 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has received a boost in its efforts to promote peace in Africa, with the signing of an agreement with African football governing body CAF, to use the universal appeal of football as a platform to advocate and promote social change in Africa
©- - 15 july 2012 - 09:31:53 - thread African Union (313 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) has recommended the deployment of a neutral force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help quell a rebel insurgency that has swept through seven towns in a matter of three months
©- - 15 july 2012 - 09:22:46 - thread African Union (386 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has called for the restoration of military-toppled Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure
©- - 15 july 2012 - 09:06:43 - thread African Union (395 words)


Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) – The Ivorian President, Alassane Ouattara, left here on Friday for Addis Ababa to take part in the 19th African Union (AU) summit in the Ethiopian capital, official sources said here
©- - 13 july 2012 - 17:06:00 - thread African Union (100 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African foreign ministers kicked off a two-day meeting in Addis Ababa, Thursday, to draw up a work plan for the 19th session of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Assembly, which will hold in the Ethiopian capital after being moved from Malawi
©- - 12 july 2012 - 17:25:26 - thread African Union (658 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - A group of African civil society bodies and international organisations with a presence in Africa has asked the African Union (AU) to demonstrate support for justice for victims of grave international crimes at its summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week
©- - 11 july 2012 - 10:53:33 - thread African Union (373 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has condemned Sunday’s twin terrorist attacks in North Eastern Kenya, which killed 17 people, and vowed its support to Kenya’s efforts to continue its fight against international terror in Somalia
©- - 02 july 2012 - 19:27:00 - thread African Union (257 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Monday condemned the ongoing destruction of UNESCO-registered World Heritage tombs by radical Islamists in Mali’s ancient city of Timbuktu
©- - 02 july 2012 - 12:13:50 - thread African Union (173 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The crisis in Mali was the major topic discussed when the Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, met Wednesday here with the African Union (AU) Commission's chief, Jean Ping, official sources told PANA
©- - 27 june 2012 - 19:19:13 - thread African Union (118 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN and African Union (AU) envoys have highlighted a new regional strategy that they hope will bring an end to the activities of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and help affected populations
©- - 27 june 2012 - 08:31:35 - thread African Union (692 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's President Omar Bashir on Monday relieved all his advisers of their duties as part of austerity measures his government is currently applying to cut down public expenditure
©- - 25 june 2012 - 22:15:24 - thread African Union (288 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The deputy secretary of the Libyan ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mohamed Abdelazi, says Libya is will cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resolve the disagreement between them on the detention of an ICC team in the North African country
©- - 18 june 2012 - 21:06:01 - thread African Union (217 words)


Vienna, Austria (PANA) - The Governing Board of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has approved 13 loans and grants totaling about US$66 million to boost socio-economic development in over 34 partner countries, many of them in Africa
©- - 18 june 2012 - 11:07:58 - thread African Union (454 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan and South Sudan are expected to resume the negotiations that were interrupted earlier this month, in an effort to resolve outstanding issues following South Sudan's independence last year
©- - 15 june 2012 - 12:28:53 - thread African Union (288 words)


Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi President Joyce Banda said Thursday although she respected the African Union's decision to move next month's summit from Lilongwe, Malawi, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, following disagreements over the attendance of embattled Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, she had no regrets for her stand on the issue
©- - 14 june 2012 - 18:56:55 - thread African Union (633 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) said Monday further talks were required between Sudan and South Sudan to end a border dispute that led to the current deadlock and moved the two neighbours to the brink of a new civil war threatening the entire Horn of Africa region
©- - 11 june 2012 - 19:25:07 - thread African Union (440 words)


Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's main daily newspaper, the Herald, on Monday sharply criticised Malawi for bowing to Western pressure and canceling an African Union (AU) summit in the country over the attendance of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
©- - 11 june 2012 - 14:44:43 - thread African Union (339 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Friday confirmed it will no longer be holding its July summit in Malawi, after the country insisted it would rather lose the hosting right than allow Sudan's President Omar el-Bashir to attend, because of his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over war crimes charges
©- - 08 june 2012 - 18:06:01 - thread African Union (864 words)


Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi has said it will go ahead to host next month's African Union (AU) summit despite Sudan asking that the summit be shifted to the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, following Lilongwe's attempts to block President Omar Hassan al-Bashir from attending because he was a wanted war criminal by the International Criminal Court (ICC)
©- - 07 june 2012 - 18:00:29 - thread African Union (570 words)


Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Peace and Security Council of the African Union and the Political and Security Committee of the European Union have called for "concerted international action" and inclusive solution to the political crisis in Guinea-Bissau, worsened by the coup d'etat of 12 April
©- - 03 june 2012 - 12:48:58 - thread African Union (268 words)


Luanda, Angola (PANA) – The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) on Friday in Luanda reiterated its support for the candidacy of Nkosasana Zuma for the chair of the African Union (AU) Commission
©- - 02 june 2012 - 10:59:59 - thread African Union (338 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) will monitor the electoral process in Libya, according to Mondher Rezgui, the Representative of the AU Commission in Libya
©- - 30 may 2012 - 18:34:31 - thread African Union (85 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has renewed by 12 months, the mandate of the task force leading the hunt for Ugandan rebel leader, Joseph Kony, whose Lords Resistance Army (LRA) is accused of committing atrocities in three countries in the Central African region
©- - 23 may 2012 - 17:36:39 - thread African Union (316 words)


Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – The Chairman of the African Union (AU) and President of Benin, Yayi Boni, will attend the G8 summit holding on Saturday at Camp David, US, according to a statement from the Beninese Foreign Affairs ministry
©- - 17 may 2012 - 14:56:35 - thread African Union (283 words)


Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The current chairman of the African Union (AU), Benin's president Boni Yayi, on Monday reaffirmed the continental organization's support to countries being destabilised by conflicts
©- - 14 may 2012 - 21:21:58 - thread African Union (220 words)


Accra, Ghana (PANA) -The African Union (AU) Adhoc Committee of Heads of State and Government would meet on Monday in Cotonou, Benin, to examine the election of the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson and members of the AU Commission
©- - 11 may 2012 - 20:16:09 - thread African Union (374 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - A delegation from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) has arrived in Brazzaville to seek the support of Congolese President Denis Sassou N’Guesso for the candidature of South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for the post of African Union Commission Chairperson
©- - 08 may 2012 - 22:16:58 - thread African Union (153 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has condemned Sunday's terrorist attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Kano, Nigeria, which targeted Christian worshippers
©- - 30 april 2012 - 12:09:04 - thread African Union (158 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Tuesday suspended Guinea Bissau from the 54-member bloc with immediate effect, a senior AU official said
©- - 17 april 2012 - 11:46:27 - thread African Union (259 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As the African Union’s (AU) Peace and Security Council kicked off a crisis meeting to discuss the coup-plagued Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday, AU Commission chief Jean Ping has warned the military against “window-dressing” a coup d’état through the introduction of a so-called “new political architecture
©- - 17 april 2012 - 10:20:14 - thread African Union (301 words)


Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ethiopia's long distance running legend Haile Gabreselassie on Sunday beat British runner Paula Radcliffe in the much-anticipated OMV Champions Race, at the 29th edition of the Vienna City Marathon in the Austrian capital, according to the online 'RaceNewsService', The British world marathon record holder got a 7-minute, 52-second head start in the half marathon chase race against Gebrselassie
©- - 15 april 2012 - 12:05:39 - thread African Union (264 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has welcomed Japanese car maker Toyota's plan to set up its regional headquarters in Kenya, noting that it would boost trade ties with Japan, a statement from his office said Friday
©- - 13 april 2012 - 16:45:08 - thread African Union (221 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Friday condemned the coup attempt in the West African state of Guinea Bissau, saying it will not accept any unconstitutional change of government
©- - 13 april 2012 - 12:01:11 - thread African Union (175 words)


Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Defending champion John Kiprotich of Kenya will lead the pack of elite African runners who are expected to feature in Sunday’s Vienna City Marathon, according to the online RaceNewsService
©- - 12 april 2012 - 14:38:52 - thread African Union (192 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has welcomed the deal between ECOWAS and the putschists in Mali, which paves the way for the restoration of constitutional rule in the West African state, the continental body said in a statement
©- - 08 april 2012 - 08:04:04 - thread African Union (206 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Dismissing the declaration of independence of Azawad by Malian rebels, the African Union (AU) Friday said the action was an “inconsequential” decision by a terrorist group and called on the international community to rally behind it
©- - 06 april 2012 - 16:45:31 - thread African Union (596 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Angola has assumed the rotating presidency of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) for the month of April
©- - 03 april 2012 - 12:28:47 - thread African Union (191 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the annual observance of World Autism Awareness Day should spur global action to combat the "unacceptable discrimination, abuse and isolation" that people with the disorder and their loved ones face
©- - 31 march 2012 - 08:59:50 - thread African Union (462 words)