EDITORIAL: Quo vadis, the African Union?
Continental body of African states drifts towards irrelevance
Since transforming itself from the Organisation of African Unity into the African Union, the AU has aspired, among its many lofty goals, to silence guns across the continent by 2020. This aspiration has eluded it dismally. The AU is drifting towards irrelevance.
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