Journal of African Union Studies : Constructing African unity : an ascendant...
On December 1 2011, Nigeria's Senate passed a law banning same sex marriage. Britain, USA, Canada and some European countries seriously frowned at the passage of such a law, which they argued was...
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A central question here is: what does this book, a compilation from the author's weekly column in the Nigerian daily newspaper ThisDay - set out to accomplish?. Broadly speaking the author has set for...
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The inability of the African Union (AU) to effectively advocate and implement policy on a range of issues, means that African countries continue to be at a disadvantage when it comes to securing their...
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A decade in existence, the African Union (AU) has had to rapidly deal with the existence of a post 9/11 world where terrorism has grown ubiquitous. Both foreign and local terror groups proliferate on...
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The regional peace and security architecture of Africa has crystallised with the adoption of the Protocol relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union...
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Since the demise of apartheid and the inauguration of democratic South Africa in 1994, the independence of South Sudan on 9 July 2011 is perhaps the only similar event on the continent that marked the...
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The past decade has seen an increase in the number of violent election related conflicts in Africa. The year 2008 alone saw Zimbabwe, Kenya and Anjouan/Comoros at some stage of the election conflict...
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The African Union (AU) has placed important emphasis on the construction of a robust peace, security and governance architecture. There has been considerable progress in developing the blueprint,...
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After seven decades of episodic existence through conferences, the Pan-African project became permanently institutionalised with the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963, with a...
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The political crisis in Madagascar resulting in the unconstitutional change of government in March 2009 was not the first time Madagascar experienced political instability. Since its independence in...
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In a 1999 report to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (1999:21) identified political will as the fundamental barrier to intervention in the Rwandan Genocide. Later,...
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When the United Nations (UN) was established in 1945 in San Francisco, the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security was entrusted to the UN Security Council...
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established as a permanent independent institution to prosecute individuals who have orchestrated and executed the most serious crimes of international...
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Like the African Union (AU), the first permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2012. Since the Court opened its doors to investigate and prosecute the most...
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Who is an African? At face value the answer seems obvious. Surely everyone knows who the African is, it would seem. But the answer becomes less obvious once other probing qualifiers are added to the...
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The African Union (AU) celebrated its tenth year of existence in 2012. Having achieved some success in certain areas, the AU's agenda for the next decade would require far more focus and determination...
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At the 21st Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) held in May 2013, African heads of state and government announced that they were establishing a force called the African Capacity for Immediate...
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Although Morocco is no longer a member state of the African Union (AU), the country continues to maintain and wishes to eventually extend its diplomatic relations with a large number of African states,...
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None of the borders shaping modern African countries have existed in the same guise prior to the Europeans' arrival. Especially starting from the nineteenth century, European powers increasingly...
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The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary celebration of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). It will also be a little more than a decade since the formation of the African Union...
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