A symbol of continental unity since 1961, Africa Hall in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has undergone a sweeping ...

The African Union (AU) has consistently stood for self-determination, decolonization, and the inviolability of colonial borders. Yet it is inconsistent in extending these principles to Somaliland.

The 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union took place in February 2025 in Addis Ababa. The ...

Having replaced the Organisation of African Unity, AU has been fighting hunger, wars and political instability unsuccessfully ...

Following seven rounds of balloting, 60-year-old diplomat Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected the sixth chair of the African Union Commission in February 2025. Politics professor Ulf Engel, who is the ...

Forced displacement has always been high on the agenda of the AU, and the Organization for African Unity (OAU) that preceded it. Under their watch, landmark treaties on refugees and on internal ...

He had been Foreign Minister for two decades; it meant he had practically attended all Organisation of African Union, OAU/AU, Summits in the last 20 years. The fact that Djibouti with a population ...

Emerging from the defunct Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the AU introduced structural, institutional, and policy reforms aimed at revitalising Africa’s political and economic cooperation.

Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Wolde says the building — which hosted OAU meetings until the organization was replaced by the African Union (AU) in 2002, which eventually moved into new ...

He had been foreign minister for two decades; it meant he had practically attended all Organisation of African Union (OAU/AU) Summits in the last 20 years. A possible reason for Djibouti’s ...