The African Union (AU) isn’t living up to expectations – and member states are partly to blame, according to AU Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat. He says they’re using their ...

With Somalia demanding Ethiopian troops leave its territory over a controversial port deal with Somaliland, the future of ...

The Global Alliance to Fight Hunger and Poverty will dominate the speech of Angolan President João Lourenço, this Monday at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

In late 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis declared that African Americans fighting for the Union were guilty of insurrection, a crime punishable by death. The following spring ...

The African Union (AU) appears to have had a good first G20 Summit this week. The 86-point G20 Rio de Janeiro Leaders’ Declaration ticked most of the boxes of the AU’s key priorities.

Somalia says Egypt has offered to deploy peacekeeping troops to the Horn of Africa country as part of a security partnership that is taking shape as the mandate of a long-standing African Union ...

African Americans had been working aboard ... The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to end slavery. Throughout this time, northern black men had continued to ...

Two African Union soldiers were killed and a third one injured by an al-Shabab mortar attack Sunday on their base inside the perimeters of Mogadishu’s international airport. A statement by the ...

In a move that has yet to make headlines in the United States or European capitals, the G20 welcomed the African Union (AU) as a new permanent member. Before the announcement, South Africa was the ...