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6 unusual facts about Organisation of African Unity


Fathy El Shazly

Ambassador El Shazly joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 01 June 1965.His diplomatic career took El Shazly to postings in Egyptian Embassies at Bamako, Mali- Caracas, Venezuela- Stockholm, Sweden and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he acted as Egypt's alternate representative to the Organisation of African Unity and to the Economic Commission for Africa, the UN branch for Africa.

Jonas Sima

Recent productions include Filmaren i Storskogen (2009); Inget jävla joll! (2010); and Lisbet (2011), a conversation with Lisbet Palme, widow of assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and now a spokesperson for UNICEF and a member of the OAU team which investigated the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Oji Umozurike

Oji Umozurike is a Nigerian scholar, activist and a former chairman of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, an organ of the inoperative Organisation of African Unity.

Sa'adu Abubakar

Abubakar also commanded a battalion of African peacekeepers in Chad during the early 1980s as part of the Organisation of African Unity's force and was military liaison officer for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the mid 1990s.

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

Tewolde was instrumental in securing recommendations from the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) encouraging African countries to develop and implement community rights, a common position on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, and a clear stance against patents on life.

Uti possidetis

In 1964 the Organisation of African Unity passed a resolution stating that the principle of stability of borders—the key principle of uti possidetis—would be applied across Africa.


Abdulrahim Abby Farah

In 1964 and 1965, Ambassador Farah represented Somalia at Council of Ministers meetings in the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).

African Peer Review Mechanism

The 37th Summit of the Organisation of African Unity held in July 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia, adopted a document setting out a new vision for the revival and development of Africa—which was to become known as the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

Ahmat Acyl

Consequently, when, on October 22, French President François Mitterrand proposed to send an Organisation of African Unity peace contingent into Chad to replace the Libyans, Goukouni and the GUNT asked the Libyans to leave immediately Chad (not without debate: 4 ministers, among whom Acyl, voted against the decision).

Neagu Djuvara

Djuvara was an acquaintance of President Hamani Diori, and notably accompanied him on official duty to Addis Ababa, attending the opening session of the Organisation of African Unity (1963).

United Nations Security Council election, 1993

Mr. Gambari of Nigeria then claimed that both Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria were recognised as candidates by the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1306

The resolution concluded by directing the Committee to improve contacts with ECOWAS, the Organisation of African Unity and international organisations such as Interpol with a view to publicising its findings through appropriate media.


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