Africa Command (AFRICOM) is the newest geographic command in the U.S. military structure, and despite the vast size of the African continent, it is also the smallest military command. It has only one base in Africa, and it is headquartered in Germany. Still, the command carries out hundreds of operations per year aimed at making
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Africa Command (AFRICOM) is the newest geographic command in the U.S. military structure, and despite the vast size of the African continent, it is also the smallest military command. It has only one base in Africa, and it is headquartered in Germany. Still, the command carries out hundreds of operations per year aimed at making
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Aljazeera Documents show S African and Ethiopian agencies in crisis, suspected Sudan, amid reported 2012 plot to kill AU chief. Secret intelligence documents leaked to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit reveal that spies in Addis Ababa were alerted to a plot by “an unnamed state” to kill a top African Union diplomat. Ethiopian agents later accused
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The African Union (AU) has backed plans for a West African task force of 7,500 troops to fight Boko Haram militants. AU commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said the threat posed by the Islamist group required a “collective, effective and decisive response”. Boko Haram has seized control of a swathe of north-east Nigeria and killed thousands
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Addis Ababa – China and the African Union agreed on Tuesday an ambitious plan to develop road, rail and air transport routes to link capitals across the continent. African Union chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma praised the proposal at “the most substantive project the AU has ever signed with a partner”, although the ambitious project that includes
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Interim leader Lt Col Isaac Zida. Photo: 5 November 2014 (BBC)- Lt Col Zida was previously second in command of the presidential guard Burkina Faso’s interim leader has dismissed the African Union’s imposition of a two-week deadline to hand power to civilians. “We are not afraid of sanctions, we care much more about stability,” said
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Xinhua The African Union (AU) on Sunday celebrated Africa Day with different activities in Ethiopia’ s capital Addis Ababa. The celebrations included a marathon dubbed the Great Run Africa, the 10th Anniversary of the Peace and Security Council of the AU, and the Africa Re-imagination Creative Hub (ARCH) exhibition. Erastus Mwencha, Deputy Chairperson of the
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By Liesl Louw-Vaudran, M&G HI.M. Haile Selassie (C) and Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah (L) at the OAU (1963) Africa Day is on Sunday. How close has the continent come to achieving the integration the OAU founders had in mind when they formed the body in 1963? In 1978 Jamaican reggae artist Hugh Mundell had a
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02/07/2014 The project has raised fears in Cairo that the project could affect Egypt’s historical share of Nile water, which represents the country’s primary water source. World Bulletin / News Desk Egyptian ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Idris has denied reports…
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ELIAS MESERET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – The African Union urged its members to “speak with one voice” against criminal proceedings at the International Criminal court against sitting presidents, according to a statement Saturday. The 54-nation organization said it was…
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