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- proper noun A
multinational organisation consisting of 53African nations .
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They've helped subsidize a thing called the African Union, which is the new sort of global organization that the African ...
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But Eritrea maintains a diplomatic mission to the African Union, which is headquartered in Addis Ababa.
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The idea is how to find a mechanism to implement the road map — a halt to fire, reconciliation, national dialogue, and then we'll have a transitional period maybe for a year or two, Kaim said, referring to an African Union initiative the Libyan government has embraced, but which rebels have rejected.
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Forget about that useless continental organization called the African Union (AU).
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For now the West -- which greatly contributed to the current mess -- is putting the burden on the African Union, which isn't entirely fair.
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STEPHEN SMITH: Well, what I actually said was together with the African Union, which is now developing its peacekeeping arrangements through its regional peacekeeping missions, we believe we have a lot of expertise and experience that we can share with the African Union and the peace and security regional missions.
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The importance of involving the African peoples, as well as the African diaspora in AU processes of economic and political integration of the continent in order to ensure that the African Union is a union of peoples and not just a ‘union of states and governments;’
Motion without notice by ANC Chief Whip in the National Assembly on Africa Day 2008
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African peoples in order to ensure that the African Union is a Union of peoples and not just a "Union of states and governments," as well as the African
ANC Today 2007
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CONVINCED that the ultimate objective of the African Union is the United States of Africa with a Union Government as envisaged by the founding fathers of the
ANC Today 2007
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Key facts about the African Union, which is to deploy a joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in the Sudanese region of
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