Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah (l) and Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie (r) helped found the OAU in 1963 The Organisation of African Unity was formed 50 years ago - on 25 May 1963. It was a compromise between ...

By Henok Tadele Addis Ababa, February 7, 2026 (ENA) When African leaders gathered in Addis Ababa in May 1963 to establish the ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - This week, 50 years ago, Organization of African Unity (OAU) member states gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to adopt the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of ...

The radical pan-Africanists of that period posed questions that politicians are still grappling with today: how to deepen cooperation, how to build a fairer international trading system and how to ...

WHEN Winston Churchill coined the expression “summit conference” more than ten years ago, he could hardly have foreseen the immense vogue both phrase and practice were to acquire over the next decade.

Delegates from across the African continent gathered in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Thursday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Organization of African Unity, the alliance ...

By Molla Mitiku Addis Ababa, February 13, 2026 (ENA)—Seventy years after the formal birth of the Pan-African project, the African Union stands as Africa’s most enduring collective political enterprise ...