This is a guest post by Jason Warner. He is a PhD candidate in African Studies at Harvard University, serving as a U.S. Government Boren National Security Fellow in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Late January ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s top regional body opened its annual summit on Saturday in Ethiopia to discuss the future of the continent of some 1.4 billion people, as the organization faces ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres and AU commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat attended a meeting on the DRC conflict – Copyright AFP Amanuel Sileshi The escalating ...

European and African leaders pledged to strengthen their partnership and uphold multilateralism at the 7th EU-Africa Summit, which concluded on Tuesday in the Angolan capital Luanda. "There is no ...

Leaders at this year’s African Union summit have condemned Israel’s assault on Gaza and called for its immediate end. Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola explains the long history of ...

In 2019, the AU was working towards negotiating a new partnership agreement with the EU post-Cotonou 2020 (see Assembly/AU/Dec.715 (XXXII)). Cotonou is an agreement between the EU and African, ...

Heads of state will meet for an African Union (AU) summit in Niger Sunday to usher in a landmark free trade agreement and consider looming security and migration crises. In a “historic” moment for the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s top regional body opened its annual summit on Saturday in Ethiopia to discuss the future of the continent of some 1.4 billion people, as the organization faces ...