• Congo’s Sassou Nguesso favoured as next AU chairman

  Monday 23 January 2006
  Jan 22, 2006 (BRAZZAVILLE) — Several heads of state have asked Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso to take over the chairmanship of the African Union (AU) during an imminent summit in Khartoum, Congo’s prime minister said Sunday. Denis (...)

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• Congo to chair African Union instead of Sudan

  Tuesday 24 January 2006
  Jan 24, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — A special African Union panel will propose on Tuesday Congo Republic should become next head of the 53-nation organisation instead of Sudan after critics said a Sudanese presidency would damage the AU’s (...)

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• AU failure: Congo’s Sassou is no better than Sudan’s al-Bashir

  Tuesday 24 January 2006
  Jan 24, 2006 (JOHANNESBURG) — By rejecting Sudan’s bid to head the African Union, African presidents on Tuesday appeared to signal it was no longer business as usual for their peers tainted by poor human rights records. Denis (...)

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• Congo named to head African Union, Sudan in 2007

  Tuesday 24 January 2006
  Jan 24, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Africa’s leaders on Tuesday named Congo to head the African Union and agreed that Sudan would take over the leadership next year, ending a row sparked by Khartoum’s bid to lead the 53-nation body. Liberia’s (...)

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• VP Taha says South Sudan independence will cause conflicts, disintegration

  Monday 2 August 2010
  August 1, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s 2nd Vice President Ali Osman Taha warned today that the possible independence of the South will create havoc and chaos that was witnessed in countries with similar experiences. Sudan’s 2nd Vice (...)

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• AU rightly rejected Sudan’s bid for presidency - HRW

  Wednesday 25 January 2006
  Jan 24, 2006 (NEW YORK) — African leaders rightly rejected Sudan’s bid for the African Union’s presidency this year, but should not reward Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with Africa’s leadership next year as long as the human rights (...)

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• African Union will send more troops to Sudan’s Darfur if asked: Obasanjo

  Saturday 4 September 2004
  BRAZZAVILLE, Sept 4 (AFP) — The African Union will send more troops to Sudan’s war-torn western Darfur region if asked to do so, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is the current head of the AU, said during a visit to the Congo (...)

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• Congo to chair AU followed by Sudan

  Tuesday 24 January 2006
  Jan 24, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Congo is to be named to head the African Union this year and Sudan will take the AU chair in 2007 under a compromise reached overnight at a summit here, a minister told AFP on Tuesday. Denis Sassou Nguesso (...)

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• 15 African leaders sign pact aimed at ending cycle of war

  Sunday 21 November 2004
  By SUKHDEV CHHATBAR DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Nov 20, 2004 (AP) — Fifteen African leaders signed Saturday a framework agreement that took ten years to reach aimed at ending the cycle of war and dictatorship in central Africa, but U.N. (...)

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• Tanzania ready to host first Great Lakes Region summit

  Sunday 14 November 2004
  DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 13, 2004 (Xinhua) — All preparations have been complete for the first summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region on issues of peace, stability, reconstruction and development, the Tanzanian (...)

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