The AU has 55 member states and has been an alternative to the
Organisation of African Unity since 2002.
Organisation of African Unity (2001), Protocol To The Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community Relating To The Pan-African Parliament.
Africa Day marks the founding of the
Organisation of African Unity in 1963.
The idea for a Pan-African Cultural Festival originated with the
Organisation of African Unity two years earlier.
The fact that the founding fathers of the
Organisation of African Unity could not have intended this to be the case is besides the point.
The Lusaka Manifesto adopted by the
Organisation of African Unity and the UN made it clear that Black Africa's saner states are prepared to leave South Africa alone - unlike the "colonial" problems of Rhodesia and South-West Africa - provided it takes positive steps as an independent country towards racial equality.
Here we have the spectacle of an African institution--reinvented less than four years ago as a replacement for the widely discredited
Organisation of African Unity to co-ordinate Africa's anticipated 'renaissance'--completely ignoring its founding principals.
A spokesman for the
Organisation of African Unity has acknowledged that the purpose of this year's Live8, as opposed to Live Aid in the mid Eighties, is not to raise money but awareness - ''awareness of the release of the new Greatest Hits CD''.
The African Union was formed two years ago as the successor to the
Organisation of African Unity, which was set up to end colonial rule and South African apartheid, among other things.
we refuse conditions,' he said at the opening of the 38th assembly of
Organisation of African Unity heads of state....
There he will meet representatives of the country's government and the secretary-general of the
Organisation of African Unity, as well as others.
The 53 member states of the
Organisation of African Unity have questioned Scotland's justice system over the "legally indefensible" conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing.