February 17 this year marks 30 years since the Arab Maghreb Union, better known by its French acronym UMA, was founded as an economic and political union bringing together...

Palestinian media are reporting that Mahmoud Abbas has appealed to the African Union to support, and participate in, a possible international conference “to take care of the peace process.”...

Egypt is promoting itself as a linchpin for intra-African trade and a model of economic reform as it prepares to chair the African Union in 2019. The country hosted...

A senior US official said today the war against Al-Shabaab has not been lost in spite of a series of recent attacks across Somalia, including in the capital Mogadishu. US Assistant...

The African Union (AU) will send a delegation of 40 observers to monitor Egypt’s upcoming presidential elections due on 26-28 March, state news agency MENA reported yesterday. The AU mission, led...

The President of the African Union (AU) and Chadian Commission, Moussa Faki, has announced that the AU is ready to draft a proposal for the resolution of the conflict...

Ironically, Maghreb governments grieve the missed opportunities of their decadent union, but refrain from taking genuine steps to bridge divides. Moroccan officials, for instance, frequently extol the benefits of...

More than 13,000 migrants have been repatriated from Libya since the beginning of December, according to the African Union (AU). The scale of the repatriation comes two months after...

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit yesterday “called for African states to reject Israel’s candidature for UN Security Council (UNSC) seat for 2019-2020”, reported Xinhua. Speaking at the opening session...

Thousands of African asylum seekers protested outside the Rwandan embassy in Israel against a government plan to forcibly deport them to Rwanda and Uganda. The protesters — the majority...

Somalia’s Prime Minister demanded US aid be cut to run an investigation over concerns of corruption in the Somali national army, Somali Press Online reported. “There are some countries...

A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu this morning and killed at least 15 officers, officials said....

Senior Human Rights Expert at the African Union’s Department of Political Affairs, Salah Hammad, said yesterday that Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine and the United States cannot give...

The Kenyan government is disputing allegations made in a new UN report claiming its forces were responsible for 42 Somali civilian casualties in a 22-month period. Some 42 Somali...

The African Union has condemned the decision by US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s official capital, saying this could derail the Middle East peace process. African...

The European Union, United Nations and African Union have agreed to an emergency plan to dismantle people-smuggling networks and repatriate stranded migrants, in an effort to ease a human...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed the desire for Israel to become a member of the African Union, in a renewed bid to increase cooperation with the continent,...

For the first time, Morocco and the Polisario Front are expected to participate in the fifth African Union-European Union (EU) Summit in Ivory Coast this week. King Mohammed VI...

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) announced on Tuesday that it is to withdraw 1,000 soldiers from Somalia by the end of this year, Anadolu has reported. The...

Al-Shabaab fighters regained control of a key town in southern Somalia today, Garowe Online reported. Just hours after African Union (AU) troops left Rasadaay, located 179 kilometres southwest of...

A United Nations report has claimed that the African Union’s Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was responsible for killing 42 children last year. “Child casualties attributed to AMISOM primarily occurred...

In meetings with Libyan officials last week, France set out its plan for resolving the Libya crisis without providing a role for the African Union (AU). Algeria has previously...

Somalia’s Al-Shabaab insurgents and troops from the African Union peacekeeping mission clashed on Sunday, a senior military officer said, while the group said it had killed 39 soldiers. The...

A delegation from the African Union has concluded its four-day mission in Libya by meeting armed forces commander-in-chief Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi. The only details released so far of...

In April this year, Tunisia signed a declaration to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights which granted individuals and non-governmental organisations the right to access the Court...

The African Union’s Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ismail Chergui, said the return of Morocco to the AU and sitting side by side with the separatist Polisario Front could...

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union has called for direct dialogue between Morocco and the Polisario Front with regard to the issue of the Western Sahara,...

The ongoing territorial dispute between the Sahrawi people of the Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco is one of the manifestations of the unfortunate tragedies of the West’s...

A political sciences professor at the University of Algiers, Dr Abdelali Razzaghi, has said that his country would not alter its support for the separatist Western Sahara’s Polisario Front...

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI hailed on Tuesday his country’s official return to the African Union after 33 years of absence. “I am finally home” King Mohammed VI said in...

Morocco has accused the African Union (AU) Commission’s head, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, of blocking its efforts to re-join the Union 32 years after it departed it, the country’s foreign ministry...

The ex-Foreign Minister of Morocco, Saad Eddine Othmani, said on Thursday that parliament’s adoption of the African Union Charter as a prelude to rejoining the bloc after 32 years...