The OAU was a vastly watered down version of that vision.
The OAU also had some achievements in conflict resolution, particularly mediating in border disputes, the major area of interstate conflict in Africa.
The OAU maintained the "Africa group" at the United Nations (UN) through which many of its efforts at international coordination were channeled.
The OAU has yet to make clear what its plan really says.Last week a respected UN envoy, Mohammed Sahnoun, took up the challenge, visiting both capitals.
The OAU leaders also vowed to isolate any government that seized power by force.The governments involved in the war in Congo signed a ceasefire.
The OAU was established on May 25 , 1963 and its activities included diplomacy (especially in support of African liberation movements), mediation of boundary conflicts and regional and civil wars, and research in economics and communications.
The OAU proposed that both sides withdraw from disputed territory pending adjudication, something that Eritrea had previously refused to do.Initially, there was hope that Eritrea's acceptance would lead to an immediate ceasefire.
The OAU was instrumental in bringing about the joint cooperation of African states in the work of the Group of 77, which acts as a caucus of developing nations within the UN Conference on Trade and Development.
The OAU, and the independence it so ably championed through its liberation committee, was meant to reverse that historical trend – and find its own version of the old US anti-colonialist Monroe doctrine and manifest destiny: Africa for Africans at home and abroad.
The OAU came into existence as a compromise between the radical pan-Africanism of leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, who advocated a union government and a continental military high command, and the more conservative outlook of the pro-western leaders of Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Liberia, who insisted on a gradual approach to African economic and political integration.
The OAU put pressure on us to expel the Libyans.
