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'Silence the guns' theme for African Union summit
African leaders met for the inaugural session of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on Sunday to discuss challenges facing the continent.
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CLEAN : The UN needs us now for Libya peace : African Union Peace and Security Council chief
At the African Union summit in Addis Ababa the organisation's Peace and Security Council chief says it wants to take on a role in the faltering UN-led efforts to achieve peace in Libya (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Images of the opening ceremony of the 33rd AU Summit
The 33rd African Union summit opens in Addis Ababa with an official ceremony (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : UN, African nations urge Guinea to end blockade of opposition chief
Representatives from the United Nations, African Union and the 15-nation West African bloc ECOWAS (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Central Africa elections 'strengthened democracy': observers
Last Sunday's general elections in Central Africa strengthened democracy in the conflict-torn country, according to regional observers from the African Union, the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) and the Community of...
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CLEAN : FILE: AU leader Faki secures second 4-year term at summit focused on Covid
Chad's former prime minister Moussa Faki Mahamat has won a second term as head of the African Union's executive body (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : DRC: FIFA president Infantino arrives in Kinshasa
FIFA President Gianni Infantino arrives in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, for a visit of a few hours during which he will exchange views with the President of the African Union, Félix Tshisekedi (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : AU official says it's 'up to the Chadian people' to get country out of crisis
Mohamed Idriss Farah, head of the African Union fact-finding mission on the "political and security situation" in Chad, believes that it is "up to Chadian people to get their country out of its crisis (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : A decade after al-Shabaab's ouster from Mogadishu, security remains fragile
Images of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, where security remains fragile a decade after African Union troops ousted the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists group Al-Shabaab from the city (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Guinea-Bissau President Embalo holds press conference after attempted coup
Images show Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo holding a conference in Bissau after what the African Union and regional bloc ECOWAS have called an "attempted coup (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Niger's Great Green Wall tentatively comes to life
The African Union's 'Great Green Wall' project takes root in Niger, hoping to transform the Simiri plateau from a desolate landscape to a haven for flora and fauna (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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VOICED : AU announces an agreement for a 'cessation of hostilities' in Ethiopian conflict
Former Nigerian president and special African Union broker Olusegun Obasanjo announces the success of the Tigray peace talks in Pretoria, confirming that both parties have agreed "to the cessation of hostilities as well as the...
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CLEAN : Niger: African Union holds summit in Niamey on industrialisation and the AfCFTA
Several African presidents including Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari and Rwanda's Paul Kagame gather in Niamey for an extraordinary summit of the African Union on industrialisation and a session on the African Continental Free Trade Area...
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CLEAN : 44 African nations sign pact establishing free trade area: AU
Forty four African countries sign an agreement establishing a free trade area seen as vital to the continent's economic development announces the head of the African Union