The African Union (AU) is organizing a series of events in 2019 to promote its theme of resolving forced displacement and to commemorate the anniversaries of two landmark and influential treaties on ...

The 38th African Union summit in Addis Ababa started with the election of commissioners, amid some confusion over the new rules adopted as part of AU institutional reform. The eastern DRC conflict and ...

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The AU, founded in May 2001 and headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a union of 55 member states that work together to address major political, social and economic issues, including preventing ...