ARTICLES RELATING TO
AU
The AU is celebrating 50 years of existence this year, since being set up in 1963 in Ethiopia. The body had 32 initial signatory governments.
Chad's air force has targeted Sudanese rebels along the Darfur border after, a breakaway rebel leader reputedly backed by N'Djamena was killed, the insurgents have charged.
African heads of state have decided that it is impossible to recognise rebel chief Michel Djotodia as president of Central African Republic.
The AU announced major steps had been made in the ongoing peace talks between Sudan and South Sudan over contentious issues.
AU has endorsed a plan for military intervention to regain control of Mali's desert north from Islamist rebels.
Former civil war foes Sudan and S Sudan are to resume talks in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to secure the joint border.
Peace in Sudan and S Sudan, the hunt for Joseph Kony and African counter-terrorism efforts is US Sec of State Hillary Clinton's agenda.
African leaders were divided over a historic vote that saw the first woman elected to head the AU Commission.
The UN Security Council and the AU categorically rejected rebel attempts to divide Mali and called for Guinea-Bissau's military to step down.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has appealed to the EU and US to help AMISOM wrest the port of Kismayu from Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamists.
Sudan and South Sudan broke off security talks after failing to agree on a demilitarised zone along their disputed border to prevent war.
Neither the UN nor the AU can impose its will on Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir said, after fresh fighting along the border with S Sudan.
US President Barack Obama has invited the leaders of Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania to take part in a session on food security in Africa at the G8 summit.
Sudan and South Sudan's armies are locked in a tense standoff, hours after a UN Security Council ultimatum to end hostilities or face possible sanctions.
A British man has been arrested in the Somalia for suspected links to the Islamist rebel group al-Shabaab, the Amisom and police say.
