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African Union

June 2026

  • A man in red patterned robes holds a megaphone and raises a staff during a street demonstration

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    The Africa exception: the slavery reparations debate was once ‘unthinkable’. Now it is unavoidable

    The architect of the African Union’s reparations framework for the historic UN resolution explains why demands for historical justice are inseparable from the struggle for Black sovereignty

March 2026

  • Award-winning author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor sitting on stage at the Wakati Wetu festival in Nairobi

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘History longs to heal’: how Africa hopes to advance campaign for reparative justice

    At festival in Kenya, artists and writers discuss role arts can play in continent’s growing push for redress over colonial crimes

November 2025

  • French troops beat an Algerian man

    African leaders push for recognition of colonial crimes and reparations

    Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism

October 2025

  • Three soldiers on the steps of a building reading out a declaration

    African Union suspends Madagascar as military leader set to be sworn in as president

    Army assumed power after parliament voted to impeach Andry Rajoelina following widespread protests

September 2025

  • A Senegalese man waves a Chinese flag

    The Long Wave
    China is eyeing superpower status via Africa and the Caribbean. But are they partners or pawns?

    Many are questioning whether China’s growing footprint in the Black diaspora is mutually beneficial
    Newsletter

August 2025

  • A world globe centred on Europe Showing Africa, The Middle East and Asia

    Putting maps of the world in perspective

  • A world map in Mercator projection.

    The Guardian view on Africa and maps: drawn true, its scale and promise can’t be ignored

  • A map of Africa from 1633.

    Mercator map isn’t a crime against Africa

  • Map on left shows Africa looking smaller in relation to other countries, while on the one on the right Africa looks larger

    African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

June 2025

  • Donkeys graze in Magosane village on February 9, 2017 in the North West Province, South Africa. Under a cloudless sky in South Africa's northwestern farming region, donkeys still amble along muddy paths, pausing to nibble on grass, oblivious to the threat from a demand for Chinese medicine. Donkey hide contains a gelatine which is claimed to be valued for medicinal purposes by the Chinese. Illegal trade and poaching of Donkeys has been on the rise for the past year. / AFP PHOTO / MUJAHID SAFODIENMUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP/Getty Images

    The Guardian view on China, Africa and disappearing donkeys: an unexpected crisis offers a clue to perils ahead

    Editorial: The surging export of hides created domestic tensions – and shows how globalisation plays out in unexpected ways

April 2025

  • A UN peacekeeping patrol in Juba, South Sudan

    The Guardian view on South Sudan: the world’s youngest nation is on the brink of a new conflict

    Editorial: The arrest of vice-president Riek Machar takes the country closer to a second civil war

February 2025

  • Minna Salami

    Must leaders be men? In Africa, it’s time for the patriarchy to give way

    Minna Salami
  • Liliane Umubyeyi

    Thanks to Trump, it is now in Europe’s self-interest to compensate Africa for slavery

    Liliane Umubyeyi

September 2024

  • A man in front of a lectern. The UN logo is on the front

    Russia isolated at UN summit after surprise bid to derail pact

    Country’s attempt to defer adoption of ambitious ‘pact for the future’ to reform institution rejected 143 votes to seven

July 2024

  • A man sitting on the ground holds out his hand through a gate to a medic in a white jacket

    How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

    One of the continent’s leading medics, Jean Kaseya, has made it his mission to help the 116m people in African countries with mental health conditions

June 2024

  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

    The University of Nairobi’s new chancellor says the continent has vast potential – but to realise the promise of AI and green jobs, rich countries must honour their commitments

April 2024

  • A damaged army tank on the street in Omdurman, Sudan

    We cannot turn our backs on the tragedy unfolding in Sudan

    Letters: Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the civil war tearing the country apart

January 2024

  • A Somali police officers stands guard during a march against the Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal.

    ‘We are ready for a war’: Somalia threatens conflict with Ethiopia over breakaway region

    Somaliland hoped to be recognised as a country after port deal with landlocked Ethiopia - but move has sparked fury in Somalia

December 2023

  • MEPs inside the European parliament in Strasbourg

    EU must face legacy of colonialism and support reparations, say MEPs

    Draft resolution to European parliament committee is first formal attempt to place reparations for slavery on EU agenda

November 2023

  • Youssouf Mondoha Assoumani, chair of the African Union permanent representatives' committee, speaking in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday.

    African and Caribbean nations agree move to seek reparations for slavery

    African Union and Caricom members establish global reparations fund and call for formal apologies from European nations
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