THIS week, Africa's leaders threw a party in Durban, South Africa, to bury the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and praise a new African Union (AU).
The African Union (AU) replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
In 1998 the OAU sponsored an international panel headed by former Botswanan president Ketumile Masire to investigate the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994; its report was released in 2000.
The formation of the Organization for African Unity (OAU) in 1963 solidified African leadership, although a sixth Pan-African Congress was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1974.
In 1982 he led the delegation sent by the Islāmic Conference Organization to mediate in the Iran-Iraq War; he also was a member in the Organization for African Unity (OAU).
He gained national prominence as a delegate to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1983, playing a key role at the June 23 summit meeting, and as that organization's chairman in 1985 86, when his decisive leadership and moderation restored confidence in the troubled body.
In 1968 he challenged the rules of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) by recognizing the secession of Biafra from Nigeria, and in 1975 he attacked the OAU for planning to hold its summit meeting in Uganda, where Pres.
In short, he is just the sort of leader the AU, which rose out of the ashes of the incorrigibly vapid Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 2002, should no longer tolerate.A vote for the AUThe AU has done distinctly better than the OAU.
At first, Eritrea kept its options open by seeking clarification on nearly 40 points, but in February, after its defeat at Badme, Eritrea also formally accepted it.However, the OAU, either through incompetence or through an attempt at creative ambiguity, has given the two governments different interpretations of its own plan.
The borders should not be changed by force and the status quo ante should be restored as a pre-condition for a subsequent demarcation and delineation of the border.Ethiopia remains committed to the OAU framework agreement.
While leaders considered "Agenda 2063", a hopeful blueprint for a socio-economic and political transformation of the continent, they also evaluated the AU's successes and failures over the past five decades.The main initial purpose of the OAU was to liberate Africa from colonialism, which would probably have happened anyway.
