• 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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• African summit opens, row over whether Sudan can chair

  Monday 23 January 2006
  Jan 23, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Africa’s leaders began their annual summit Monday in disarray, failing to resolve dissent over Sudan’s bid to chair the 53-state body while it stands accused of complicity in the conflict in Western Darfur. The (...)

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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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• 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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• Sudan’s hosting of AU summit offers undue reward to genocidal regime - ONG

  Thursday 29 December 2005
  Dec 29, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — Human rights groups and opponents of the Sudanese government charge that the hosting of next month’s African summit by Khartoum offers undue reward to a regime accused of genocide in Darfur. The most strident (...)

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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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• Africa survives test of diplomacy

  Wednesday 25 January 2006
  Jan 24, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — The African Union survived the toughest diplomatic test of its four-year existence Tuesday by settling a leadership row that dominated the Khartoum summit but left many of the continent’s problems by the (...)

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• Sudan has got Africa’s message - minister

  Tuesday 24 January 2006
  Jan 24, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan is expected to show progress in ending the violence in its western region of Darfur before it takes the chair of the 53-nation African Union, a Sudanese minister said Tuesday. The destroyed village of (...)

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• 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. (...)

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• Sudan offeres to withdraw its bid to head African Union

  Monday 23 January 2006
  Jan 23, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese official offered to withdraw Sudan’s bid to head the African Union to avoid a split among leaders of the 53-nation body gathered in Khartoum for a summit. President Olusegun Obasanjo, right, in a (...)

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