The new AU Commission chair promised to defend Africa’s fair representation and role in global forums. This is likely to be ...

Critics argue that the African Union has largely been ineffective in embracing the values of Africans and allow greater engagement of citizens in the aspiration and actions of the bloc.

The African Union Commision has new leadership in Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. But how will the AUC handle deepening continental and global crises? Pushed to the peripheries of the world's ...

As the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reaches a critical juncture, pressure is mounting on the African Union Peace and Security Council to take decisive action when government ...

The African Union, AU, has warned against the break-up of the Democratic Republic of Congo, two days after the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group entered a second city in the country’s east.

The escalating conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo will dominate an African Union summit opening Saturday, with the DRC president absent after Rwandan-backed forces seized a second major city ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders on Saturday elected Djibouti’s foreign minister to become the next leader of the commission than runs the continent-wide African Union. Mahmoud Ali ...

“Global credit rating agencies have not only dealt us a bad hand, they have also deliberately failed Africa,” Kenyan President William Ruto said on Friday at the launch of the African Credit ...

African leaders convened in Addis Ababa for the 38th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU), where pressing issues such as the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the ...

The African Union will elect a new chairman over the weekend, with three candidates vying to represent some 1.5 billion people across the continent. A general view of the logo and the flags of the ...

At their annual summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the organization’s members elected Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf as the next chair of the African Union Commission in a secret ...

The African Union expressed “deep concern” on Wednesday over the continued escalation of the war in Sudan and relentless “crimes against humanity”. The African Union held a special meeting ...