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African leaders in Libya were on Friday hotly debating a draft resolution by the African Union (AU) which will, if adopted, deal a major blow to the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war criminals in Africa.
Duho Artan, a Somali mother, one of the parents whose children are detained in Libyan jails has Friday requested from the both Libya and Somali government to release their children and return to their country.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has reiterated that he supports the idea of regional political federation before an African political union.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is among several African leaders and Heads of Government attending the 13th Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, taking place in the Libyan town of Sirte.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, at the head of an 8-member official delegation, has left the country for the 13th Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union. This year's Summit is taking place in Sirte, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, from July 1 - 3, 2009.
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare yesterday for Sirte, Libya, to attend the 13th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, which begins today in the city that gave birth to the AU through the Sirte Declaration of 1999.
The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Jean Ping, has expressed grave concern at the reemerging of coups d'etat on the continent, and unconstitutional changes of government.
Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday refused to accept the outcomes of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) leaving the member states divided again.
A Head of States meeting opens tomorrow in Libya within a background of political crisis in several countries.
Foreign Affairs Minister Ojo Maduekwe, has expressed the hope that the next AU Summit would make more progress in concluding the formation of the African Union Government.
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro will represent the United Nations at this week's African Union (AU) summit in Sirte, Libya, it was announced today.
The 15th session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) kicked off in Syrte, Libya, on Sunday, with Libyan leader and AU Chairperson, Muammar Gaddafi, calling for urgent steps to be taken to transform the AU into an "African Government."
President Jacob Zuma on Sunday departed for Libya where he will lead the South African delegation to the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit. The Summit is scheduled to take place from 1 to 3 July, in Sirte, Libya.
An Angolan delegation, headed by the minister of Foreign Affairs, Assunção dos Anjos, Sunday left for Libya, to participate at the 13th ordinary session of the African Union, taking place from 30 June to 3 July, in Sirtes city.
The House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora has begun the process to repatriate about 10,000 Nigerian teenage girls held captive by the sex-slave trade in Libya and Morocco.
The African Union should urge the United Nations Security Council to set up a commission of inquiry to document the worst human rights abuses in Somalia, an essential first step in creating justice and accountability, Human Rights Watch said in a letter released today. The letter was sent in advance of the AU Summit meeting in Sirte, Libya on July 1-3, 2009.
ADDITIONAL 102 Nigerians, forty five of them from Edo state, were arrested weekend by the Libyan authorities while trying to travel to Europe with fake documents.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is famously idiosyncratic, but during his groundbreaking visit to Italy this month he secured something no African country has managed from a former colonial power -- an apology for colonialism and $5 billion in symbolic reparations.
Edo State government has expressed worries over what it described as the "unfriendly" attitude of the Libyan government towards the efforts being made by the Federal Government to secure the release of the over 1,500 Edo natives languishing in Libyan prison.
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