The Islamist government of Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir is refusing to accept non-African states as members of the hybrid UN-African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur that is due to replace the undermanned and demoralized African Union peacekeeping force whose mandate ends on December 31.
Specifically, because we know the importance of peace in Darfur I am announcing today more help from Britain to train, equip and deploy African troops for the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation.
The budget-buster is a government promise of lavish payments to ex-guerrillas who helped fight for the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Popular Front in the war for independence, which ended in 1979.
Four other legal groups - including the International Commission of Jurists and the Pan African Lawyers Union - condemned her detention.
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The international community -- including West African states, the African Union and the United States -- called for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule.
The international community -- including West African states, the African Union and the United States -- has called for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule.
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They have now joined the 18, 000-strong African Union (AU) force supporting the UN-backed government.
Kenya last year sent its troops to fight al-Shabab in Somalia - they have now joined the 18, 000-strong African Union (AU) force supporting the UN-backed government.
The promised deployment of a hybrid UN-African Union force in Sudan's ravaged Darfur region is flagging badly.
UN-African Union command a Sudanese concession granted more because of Chinese than American pressure.
Prepared by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur, the report says attacks in January and February point to a deliberate plan to destroy civilian infrastructure.
France has been pushing for the swift deployment of an African Union-backed force, the International Support Mission to Mali (Afisma), to take control of Malian towns.
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"We are building efforts around all of them, " Colburn said of the state's diverse voting blocs, noting that key Obama targets include African-Americans, union members and students.
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The African Union-led negotiations also cover other outstanding issues since secession, including the status of citizens of both countries who find themselves living on either side of the world's newest international border.
It will be the job of the African Union-backed force, the International Support Mission to Mali (Afisma), to root out the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents that have fled into the desert and mountains further north.
Everything we are doing -- from Washington, the United States, from Brussels, from New York, in concert with our international partners, including the Arab League and the African Union -- we are -- is designed precisely to change the dynamic and put pressure on Colonel Qaddafi.
Ugandan troops - part of the African Union force stationed in Mogadishu - arrived at the scene shortly after the shooting started.
The Conference of Parliamentarians for UNESCO on 3 October (Room X, 9.45 a.m to 6.00 p.m.) will bring together over 100 parliamentarians who serve as focal points for UNESCO and representatives of organizations including the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino), the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU).
The African Union and the 15-country Southern African Development Community, an influential regional club, as well as the European Union and the United States, denounced a recent coup in Madagascar by Andry Rajoelina and said they would work to restore the country's constitutional order.
It called on the international community to do more to support the 7, 000-strong African Union peacekeeping mission there.
Pronk had been the chief champion of U.N. peacekeeping troops for Darfur, to replace the overstretched and woefully under-resourced African Union force.
Under a tentative peace deal, al-Bashir agreed in November to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7, 000-strong African Union force in Darfur.
In particular, I am grateful for the work of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel, led by President Thabo Mbeki, for its determined and skilled leadership in bringing about this agreement.
U.N. peacekeepers are scheduled to take command of the region from a 7, 000-member African Union force by Dec. 31, but the bulk of the units are not expected to arrive until 2008.
And as a result, Kofi Annan held a meeting of the main stakeholders in Addis Ababa in November, which led to a compromise with the government of Sudan that being a hybrid force - an African Union, United Nations hybrid force.
One course might be to stop pretending it is just another member of the Organisation of African Unity or Southern African Development Community, and start developing bilateral relations with other African countries, perhaps extending the South African Customs Union free-trade agreement to them.
African leaders, nearly all of whom are men, have the African Union (AU) headquarters - a stunning building funded by the Chinese in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
The stand-off is thought to have taken place between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) - allied to the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party - and the militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu).
African Union troops pushed al-Shabab from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in August 2011.
African Union troops forced al-Shabab out of the capital in 2011 but the group still controls wide swaths of south-central Somalia.
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