The African Union's human rights court has rejected petitions by former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and former prime ...

Commission is seeking to grow the continent’s share of global trade from the current 2% to 20%, the Union’s Director of ...

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo saw an appeal rejected by the African Union's human rights court on Thursday, as ...

The African Single Electricity Market (AfSEM), a continental energy trading program that aims to interconnect all 55 African Union (AU) members through an efficient and affordable electricity market, ...

It has been more than three years since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. During that time, some African countries ...

Gbagbo who ruled Ivory Coast from 2000 until he was forced from power in 2011 had ran to the continental court to challenge his disqualification from seeking the presidency over a criminal conviction ...

News about African Union, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), has raised the alarm over the projected surge in drug use ...

The AU aimed to build solidarity among African nations and people of African descent in the diaspora by positioning 2025 as ...

Africa’s annual trade financing gap is locking out small businesses from taking part in continental commerce, the African ...

MORE than 50 countries on the continent have already signed and ratified the African Union Convention on Preventing and ...

Africa’s donkey population is in steep decline. Leaders, scientists, and policymakers meeting in Abidjan have sounded the ...