The opening ceremony of the Oromo Diaspora Festival celebrated at the AU Headquarters on Monday, (August 03, 2015). The festival, the first of its kind gathered many of the members of the Oromo Diaspora. More

Somalia’s Defense Minister General Abdulkadir Sheikh Ali Dini spoke last week highly of the importance of rebuilding the country’s national army, noting that the “rebuilding of our national army” allows the country to thrive for a better progress. The Defense Minister attending the High-Level Partnership Forum held in Mogadishu last week emphasized that the rebuilding of the national army will have a milestone of significance for the development of the country. More

Thabo Mbeki, the head of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP), arrived in Khartoum on Sunday to hold talks with President Omer al-Bashir of Sudan and high-level government officials on Monday (August 03) over the resumption of peace talks with the Sudan People’s Liberation to end the ongoing conflict in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states; and Darfur rebel groups. More