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Issue 135, 2008 (2008-05-07)
While a number of African countries signed interim Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union late last year, African policy makers are coming under increasing pressure from a variety of stakeholders to revoke and annul the interi...
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Issue 134, 2008 (2008-04-30)
One month after elections in Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has yet to release the results of the presidential elections. The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) noted in its interim statement that “the post-election phase which forms pa...
AU Monitor Weekly Update
Issue 133, 2008 (2008-04-17)
The AU Monitor and the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) invite research papers for the forthcoming publication “African Perspectives on Aid in Africa” to be published in September 2008. While Africa is the biggest recipien...
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Issue 132, 2008 (2008-04-09)
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa has issued an open letter on behalf of “the many people within SADC [the Southern African Development Community] increasingly alarmed at unfolding events in Zimbabwe” to heads of state and government, m...
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Issue 131, 2008 (2008-04-02)
This week’s AU Monitor brings you a report back from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) civil society workshop written by Edwin Ikhuoria of the National Association of Nigerian Traders. The workshop was convened by ECOWAS in orde...
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Issue 130, 2008 (2008-03-26)
African Union (AU) troops this week supported the Comoros army to take control of the rebel island of Anjouan. The crisis began in June 2007 when African Union monitored elections were due to be held on the islands of Anjouan, Grand Comore and Moheli...
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Issue 128, 2008 (2008-03-14)
This week’s AU Monitor brings you analysis from John Palmer on the lessons from the European Union (EU) for the African Union. Providing a detailed background of the structures, membership criteria and values of the EU, he asks whether regional bloc...
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Issue 129, 2008 (2008-03-20)
The African Union (AU) has issued a communiqué this week condemning “the continuous deadly and indiscriminate attacks against civilian areas in Gaza Strip committed by the Israeli occupying forces”, which it claims constitute systematic violations of...
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Issue 127, 2008 (2008-03-05)
This week’s AU Monitor brings you news from the Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The Southern African Development Community (SADC) sent a delegation to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to study its agricultural policy ...
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Issue 126, 2008 (2008-02-27)
This week’s AU Monitor brings you analysis of the AU audit report from Dolphine Ndeda who urges that the report be popularised and implemented immediately. She notes that “one general finding of the Panel was that the AU commission is characterised by internal institutional incoherence and disarray” and calls on the incoming Chairperson and Commissioners to prioritize management and outreach reform without delay....
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Issue 125, 2008 (2008-02-22)
The AU Monitor's Monthly Discussion Paper Series presents its current paper, based on the "Open Letter to Africa's Present and Future Leaders" written by the 2007 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellows. Among other recommendations, the letter urges "the establishment of a high-level African Union led campaign to fight tribalism and inequality in all its forms across the continent." Forum members are encouraged to contribute to the discussion and answer the proposed questions....
AU Monitor: Issue 123, 2008
Weekly Roundup (2008-02-07)
This week’s AU Monitor brings you news and updates from the African Union (AU) summit. Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has been elected Chair of the African Union, promising that he will do everything “within his mandate to work towards peace...
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup
Issue 122, 2008 (2008-01-31)
This week's AU Monitor brings you updates and analyses from the 10th Ordinary Session of the African Union, where President John Agyekum Kufuor ends his term as Chairman of the African Union this week. President Kufuor is acknowledged for his many accomplishments and the progress that the AU has made during his tenure. ...
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Issue 121, 2008 (2008-01-24)
This week's AU Monitor brings you news and updates from the 10th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government. As the Heads of State convene for the 10thAfrican Union Summit, Chrysantus Ayangafac provides an in-...
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup
Issue 120, 2008 (2008-01-17)
This weeks' AU Monitor brings you news and updates from the African Union, as it announces the 10th Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Addis Ababa, holding under the theme: "Industrial Development of Africa". Also, questions are being raised as to whether this summit will cause African leaders to " rethink the continent's approach to an industrial take-off ". ...
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Issue 119, 2008 (2008-01-10)
This week's AU Monitor brings you important updates regarding the African Union's response to the post-election crisis occurring in Kenya. Immediately following post-election uprisings, the African Union Commission delivered a Communique' on the sit...
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Issue 118, 2007 (2007-12-27)
This week's AU Monitor brings you updates from the African Union, where Cuban Vice President Estaban Lazo Hernandez recently held discussions with Commissioner Konare. The two leaders agreed to improve political and socioeconomic links between the Af...
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup
Selome Araya (2007-12-13)
This week's AU Monitor brings you news and updates from the African Union. AU Commissioner for Social Affairs Bience Gawanas calls for a collective effort in addressing drug trafficking and related crimes, referring to them as "human security and development issues that should be addressed if the AU was to achieve its objectives". Further, the One World Trust has profiled the African Union in its Global Accountability Report, with findings based on public information....
Internship opportunity with AU Monitor
2007-12-13
This week the AU Monitor announces an internship opportunity for young African journalism professionals to report from the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2008. Journalists will be given training on the African Union and will be expected to produce daily reports from the summit meetings, amongst other duties. For more information please visit: www.aumonitor.org/comments/542/...
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup
Hakima Abbas (2007-11-28)
This week’s AU Monitor brings you news from the African Union where a meeting of the Ministerial Committee on the Union Government is taking place in Addis Ababa between the 27th and 28th of November. According to the Accra declaration adopted in Ju...
In Preparation for AU Summit
Hakima Abbas (2007-11-29)
In Preparation for the AU Summit In response to the overwhelming inquiries from our subscribers for more information on the themes, potential advocacy avenues and logistical details for the upcoming AU summit in Addis Ababa, the AU Monitor has put...
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup
Selome Araya (2007-11-08)
This week's AU Monitor brings you updates from the African Union. During the Pan-African Parliament's (PAP) Eighth Ordinary Session, members discussed the need for increased citizen involvement in international affairs, especially within the United N...
Peoples’ Audit Update
Hakima Abbas (2007-11-02)
On the heels of the High Level Panel’s invitation for e-submissions, the AU Monitor urged African civil society and citizens to contribute to the process of a “Peoples’ Audit of the AU”. This week, the AU Monitor brings you the perspective of Charle...
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup
Selome Araya (2007-11-02)
This week's AU Monitor brings news and critical analysis of the African Union. An editorial from the Africa Agenda criticizes the "Grand Debate on the African Union" as failing to look at the challenges facing the formation of a united continental go...
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Selome Araya (2007-10-25)
In this week's AU Monitor, we bring you news and updates from the Pan African Parliament. Members from the European and Pan African Parliaments met in South Africa to prepare for the upcoming EU-Africa Summit. Parliament leaders stress the need for a...
Weekly Roundup
Issue 108, 2007 (2007-10-17)
The AU Monitor has developed an African Union and Civil Society Calendar for your reference and input. The calendar will be regularly updated each month with relevant pan-African events, meetings and other important dates. Please refer to the calendar regularly and write directly to aumonitor.editor at gmail.com should you wish to add items to the calendar. ...
LAUNCH OF THE PEOPLES’ AUDIT OF THE AU
Urgent call for contributions (2007-10-10)
This week, the AU Monitor is calling for your contributions toward a Peoples’ Audit of the African Union (AU) (www.aumonitor.org/comments/413/). The Audit Review panel was set up by the African Union in July in order to identify the areas where si...
Weekly Roundup of AU Monitor
Issue 107, 2007 (2007-10-10)
This week’s AU Monitor brings you analysis of South Africa’s role in Darfur from the Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre. Abdelbagi Jibril argues that by South Africa “providing unconditional political and diplomatic support to the government of Sudan in its attempts to cover up the crimes it has wilfully committed in Darfur amounts to certain complicity in the commission of these crimes”. ...
Weekly Roundup
Issue 106, 2007 (2007-10-04)
In this week’s AU Monitor, Michael Deibert argues that regional trade and integration are key to African development, while President Abdou Diouf, Secretary General of la Francophonie and former President of Senegal, speaking at the African Developme...
Weekly Roundup
Issue 105, 2007 (2007-09-26)
As the Save Darfur Day was commemorated around the world on September 17, 2007, General Agwai, commander of the AU-EU peacekeeping force for Darfur, states that political will is needed to end the crisis, noting that he has only 6,000 of the 20,000 t...
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