Sharm-el-Sheikh - The African Union (AU) at its 11th Summit of Heads of State and Government has called for bringing about the necessary financial and technical support for the creation of an African Rapid Intervention Force by 2010.

The African leaders, at the conclusion of their summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt on Tuesday, urged the AU Commission, concerned African organisations and groups as well as the member states to implement the recommendations of the African Defence and Security...

African leaders have deferred their discussion of a union government until January next year after failing to reach a consensus at their Summit in Egypt this week.

A high-level expert group of 12 heads of state was established at a previous summit in Ghana, specifically to accelerate the process but consensus remains elusive.

Heads of State attending the 11th Session of the African Union (AU) Summit on 30 June and 1 July in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, decided...

New York - The United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Africa faces a “dramatic” shortage of physicians by the year 2015.
According to a new study, it is projected that there will be nearly 13 million doctors by then, a figure that will meet demand and will exceed the target of achieving the benchmark of having 80 percent of all live births covered by a skilled attendant.

However, given the imbalances in physician distribution, Africa will face...

By Kwaku Osei Bonsu

Sharm-El-Sheikh - A landmark plan of action, targeting an estimated $72 billion a year in external funding to help Africa win the battle against poverty, has been launched at the gathering of the continent's political leaders in this Egyptian Red Sea resort.

President Thabo Mbeki was among the Heads of State and Government of the 53-nation African Union (AU), who attended the two-day summit on Monday held under the theme "Millennium Development...

JOHANNESBURG, 30 June 2008 (IRIN) - If the Southern African Development Community (SADC) "wished to be taken seriously" it would have to declare Robert Mugabe's presidential claim illegitimate, a regional analyst told IRIN.

The United States and the European Union have condemned Mugabe's one-man presidential poll as a farce, but none of SADC's 14 member states have yet declared a position on the validity of Mugabe's presidential claim. So far the only African leader...