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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Organization of African Unity
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The OAU is shortly due to send a "strong multidisciplinary team of observers" to monitor the elections in Zimbabwe.
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Our vision was spelt out in the base document of NEPAD, whose framework was adopted at the 2001 Lusaka OAU Summit Meeting of African Heads of State and Government, and which was finalised by the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee at its meeting in Abuja, Nigeria in October 2001.
ANC Today 2007
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Our vision was spelt out in the base document of NEPAD, whose framework was adopted at the 2001 Lusaka OAU Summit Meeting of African Heads of State and
ANC Today 2007
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The summit will mark the end of nearly four decades of existence of the OAU, which is being replaced by the 53-member African Union, the brainchild of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi and loosely based on the European Union.
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The gathering of African leaders was their last under the banner of the OAU, which is to be formally replaced by the African Union on Tuesday.
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The OAU, which is headquartered in Addis Ababa, was set up in 1963 when African nations were just beginning to gain independence.
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Concerning that oversight mechanism, we have to look at the efficacy of existing institutions, namely the OAU Secretariat, the
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In this regard, the ministers recalled the OAU pertinent decisions; the 1991 Abuja Treaty establishing the African Economic Community; the 1993 Cairo Declaration establishing mechanism for conflict prevention, management and resolution; the 1999 Algiers Summit declarations; the 09-09-1999 Sirte Summit declarations and other relevant decisions.
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The formation of the OAU was a milestone in the decolonisation of the continent as it gave new political impetus to African peoples struggles to rid the continent of all vestiges of colonial oppression and economic subjugation.
ANC Today 1999
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Concerning that oversight mechanism, we have to look at the efficacy of existing institutions, namely the OAU Secretariat, the
Statement at the 35th ordinary session of the OAU Assembly of Heads of State and Government 1999
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