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AU Passport - (7 articles)

Peoples' Audit of the AU - (11 articles)

Friday, May 16, 2008

Health Campaign Countdown to AU Summit

The Africa Public Health 15% Now Campaign has launched a 30 day countdown to the mid year African Union summit which holds in Egypt from the 24th of June.

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Letter Calling for AU Intervention in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean crisis requires urgent leadership from the African Union. The post election environment has been characterised by organised violence, harassment and intimidation against people that are assumed to be MDC supporters.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Popularise and Implement the AU Audit

Dolphine Ndeda -- During the African Union Summit in Accra in June 2007, African Heads of States agreed to subject the African Union to a comprehensive audit review. This decision was received by many as a gesture of their commitment to explore the potential of our revered organization. Three months after the report was produced in December 2007, nothing much has been said or done about it, other than referring it to a Ministerial committee, which will sit in April. There is still with no assurance on its implementation or a time frame on what is to happen thereafter.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Disappointment on the Audit

Abdalla Bujra, Executive Director DPMF, Member of the Audit Panel—As part of the Grand Debate on the Union Government, the Accra Summit in July 2007 took two important decisions, among others. Firstly the Assembly set up a Ministerial Committee of ten to look into the different aspects of a possible Union Government; and secondly the Assembly requested an Audit of the African Union. For this purpose, a High Level Panel of 13 Africans were appointed by the Chairperson of the African Union to conduct the Audit.

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