More than 24 hours after Nigeria’s Ministry of Health announced the first confirmed case of Coronavirus in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to speak on the issue. The…
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INSECURITY: AU To Deploy 3000 Soldiers To Niger, Chad, Mali, Other Affected Countries
by Damilare Salami February 27, 2020The African Union (AU) has announced that it was preparing to deploy 3,000 troops to countries affected by terrorism in the Sahel region of the continent to end the scourge.…
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African leaders on Sunday condemned US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan as illegitimate, taking advantage of an African Union summit to voice solidarity with “the Palestinian cause”. AU Commission…
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Buhari Tasks AU Leaders To Seek New Strategies To Tackle Terrorism
by Damilare Salami February 9, 2020President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked the African Union (AU) to evolve new strategies to combat escalating terrorists’ activities and other new forms of security challenges in different parts of the…
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The African Union (AU) has suspended Sudan with immediate effect. This is coming on the heels of continued killings by the Sudan Military Transitional Council. The Sudanese Military of Health…
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Victory At Last: Al-Shabaab Militant Leader Surrenders To AU Forces In Somalia
by Damilare Salami March 9, 2017The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Thursday confirmed that the leader of the militant group al-Shabaab has surrendered to government forces in Baidoa town in southern Somalia. The…
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Moussa Faki Mahamat of Chad Emerges As African Union Chairman
by Damilare Salami January 30, 2017African Union leaders have elected Chad’s candidate as the chairman of the 54-nation body on Monday at a summit where the divisive issues of Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal…
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Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama The plan the African Union (AU) members to collectively withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) may suffer a setback as Nigeria and some other countries…
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Morocco is set to rejoin the African Union (AU) during the 28th African summit scheduled for Jan. 30 to Jan. 31 in Addis-Ababa, after leaving the pan-African organisation three decades…