On 9 September 1999, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) adopted the Sirte Declaration calling for the establishment of the African Union (AU). The AU was officially launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa....
OAU
CARTOON: African Union
Imagining and forgetting
The AU’s glossy new headquarters conceals the site’s notorious past as an execution chamber and burial ground for dissidents, vagrants and criminals The concrete skeleton of the new African Union (AU) headquarters...
Falling behind on safety
Inconsistent funding partners’ uncoordinated missions and lagging member states hinder the AU’s counter-terrorism measures Continuous bloodletting by extremist groups in Africa in recent years has brought into question...
Imagining a self-sufficient African Union
A new self-funding scheme aims to decrease the AU’s dependence on donor funding, but how realistic is it? Since independence half a century ago, African leaders have periodically launched continent-wide initiatives...
Morocco in, SADR out
The 2011 17th Ordinary African Union Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea © Embassy of Equatorial Guinea. Image Flickr Morocco’s return to the AU could herald the expulsion of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, once...
