* Directorate of Peace and Security is headed by Ramtan Lamamra

Voters rejected the Kenya African National Union's ( KANU ) presidential candidate, Uhuru Kenyatta, the handpicked candidate of outgoing president Moi.

" He went on to say that, in addition to increasing economic and social problems, the use of force is of concern and runs counter to democratic principles, whilst affirming Russia's support of the African Union's position.

* July 5 – In Kenya, riots erupt against the Kenya African National Union's monopoly on power.

Kabbah was the head of the Commonwealth's observer mission for the December 2007 Kenyan election, as well as the head of the African Union's observer mission for the March 2008 Zimbabwean election.

In October 2006 FLEC-FAC asked for intervention by the African Union's Commission on Human and Peoples ' Rights.

Midrand is also the location of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament and of the NEPAD secretariat.

The Organization of African Unity / African Union and United Nations have proposed negotiated solutions, though the African Union's stance on Western Sahara led to Morocco's exit from the organisation.

In doing so, Adada ignored the African Union's official condemnation of the takeover.

On 28 March 2005, Maathai was elected the first president of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council and was appointed a goodwill ambassador for an initiative aimed at protecting the Congo Basin Forest Ecosystem.

* The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the UN's Special Representative for Human Rights Defenders and the African Union's Commission on Human and Peoples ' Rights issued a joint communiqué in which they commended the European Union for its recent adoption of a set of guidelines for protecting human rights defenders and urged the world's other regions to take similar steps in that direction.

Since 1963, he participated in sit-ins and teach-ins, and was arrested many times for protests against racial segregation, the Vietnam War, the Soviet Union's oppression of Jews, South African apartheid, and the Iraq war.

He ran in 2005 for the post of Director General of the WTO as African Union's candidate.

Later, in September 2004, Boye was appointed by Alpha Oumar Konaré as the African Union's Special Representative for the promotion of the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.

Dr. Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem ( born 1934 ) is an Angolan political figure who was the First Vice-President of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament.

Elise Ndoadoumngue Ne ' loumsei Loum ( born 1956, Chad ) was a Vice-President of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament from 2004 to 2009.

He was the Fourth Vice-President of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament.

African Liberation Day on May 25 is an annual holiday in various countries in Africa, coinciding with African Union's Africa Day.

Charles Mutasa is a Vice-President of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council, for the region of Southern Africa.

Ayodele Patrick Aderinwale MFR is the West Africa Vice President of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for West Africa.

Maurice Tadadjeu ( b. 1950 in Cameroon ) is a Vice-President of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Central Africa.

By mid-1997 the government signed peace deals with FARF and the MDD leadership and succeeded in cutting off the groups from their rear bases in the Central African Republic and Cameroon.

Annoyed that Constans had received Thrace and Macedonia after the death of Dalmatius, Constantine demanded that Constans hand over the African provinces, which, in order to maintain a fragile peace, he agreed to do.

Annoyed that Constans had received Thrace and Macedonia after the death of Dalmatius, Constantine demanded that Constans hand over the African provinces, which, in order to maintain a fragile peace, he agreed to do.

The Battle of Adys is the first Roman success on African soil and Carthage sues for peace.

By 1993, U. S. aid to Mozambique was prominent, due in part to significant emergency food assistance in the wake of the 1991-93 southern African drought, but more importantly in support of the peace and reconciliation process.

South African Archbishop the Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu said he was " very deeply distressed " by a visit to the Holy Land, adding that " it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa ".

Mbeki has mediated in difficult and complex issues on the African continent including Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ), Côte d ' Ivoire, and some important peace agreements.

He headed the formation of both the New Partnership for Africa's Development ( NEPAD ) and the African Union ( AU ) and has played influential roles in brokering peace deals in Rwanda, Burundi, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The principal aim of this endeavour is to further strengthen the African capacity and build a wide expertise for a better understanding of conflicts in Africa, their prevention and the creation of the environment favourable to lasting peace and development in the region.

Africa Peace and Conflict Journal is an academic journal focused on African issues related to peace and security and is published by the UPEACE Africa office.

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ; That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation ; That until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes ; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race ; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained ; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed ; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will ; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven ; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace.

Host of the Organisation of African Unity Conference in 2000, Algeria also was key in bringing Ethiopia and Eritrea to the peace table in 2000.

He even entertained a peace treaty proposed by Botha and the other Boer leaders that would have maintained the sovereignty of the South African Republican and the Orange Free State while requiring them to sign a perpetual treaty of alliance with the UK and grant major concessions to the UK such as equal rights for English with Dutch in their countries, voting rights for Uitlanders, and a customs and railway union with the Cape Colony and Natal, although he knew the government in the UK would reject the offer.

Initial institute focus includes development of African human resources, science and technology, agriculture, nutrition and health, culture, business, peace and good governance.

On 25 July 2007, Kibaki appointed Moi as special peace envoy to Sudan, referring to Moi's " vast experience and knowledge of African affairs " and " his stature as an elder statesman ".

Although the peace Treaty of Lisbon with Portugal in 1668 ceded the North African enclave of Ceuta to Spain, it was little solace for the loss of Portugal and the Portuguese colonies by Philip IV to the Duke of Braganza's successful revolt against 60 years of Habsburg rule.

Christian de Bonchamps, a French explorer who served Leopold in Katanga, expressed attitudes towards such treaties shared by many Europeans, saying, " The treaties with these little African tyrants, which generally consist of four long pages of which they do not understand a word, and to which they sign a cross in order to have peace and to receive gifts, are really only serious matters for the European powers, in the event of disputes over the territories.

First though, Ali accompanies the Prime Minister to a United Nations peace conference to avert war between the French-speaking African nations of Chad and Burkina Faso.

Hip hop represents an avenue for peace, tolerance, and literacy for millions of African youth, who are powerful in numbers, but politically neglected, as witnessed with the exploitation of child soldiers.

Much of the peacekeeper training the United States provides to African militaries is done by private firms, and with the increasing absence of Western military support to international peace operations, the private sector is commonly utilized to provide services to peace and stability operations from Haiti to Darfur.

Her causes were far reaching: in addition to prison reform, she sought world peace and worked for equality for African Americans.