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Articles from Vol. 519, July

10 Years of the AU the Hurdles and the Triumphs

Africa's Future Has Never Looked Brighter: While Many Challenges Remain, on Any Balanced Assessment, the Strides Africa Has Made in the Last Decade Have Been Remarkable, Writes Chris Newson (Pictured below), Head of Standard Bank Africa

Amid Heightened Tensions: The AU Has Called for South Sudan and Its Northern Neighbour Sudan to Withdraw Their Forces from the Disputed Border Areas and Settle Their Arguments over Oil, Citizenship and Boundary Issues within Three Months. but, as Washington Shirai Reports, Little Progress Has Been Made

Ekpe's Last AGM as Ecobank's CEO: Arnold Ekpe, (Pictured below) the Man Who for 12 Years Guided Ecobank's Rise to Become a Truly Pan-African Bank, Is Retiring at the End of the Year. the 2012 AGM Was an Occasion to Behold

Ensuring Food Security in Africa: Four African Heads of State Were Invited to Camp David, USA, for Last Month's G8 Summit. the Leaders of Ethiopia, Benin, Tanzania, and Ghana Were Invited to Discuss One Issue in Particular: Food Security. Africa Has All the Ingredients to Feed Itself and the World, but Food Security Has Been a Perennial Problem for the Continent

Ethiopia Making Strides in Health Delivery: Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus, Ethiopia's Minister of Health, Is a Star Amongst Health Practitioners. This Softly-Spoken Man Was Melinda Gates' Choice in Wired Magazine's List of "50 People Who Will Change the World in 2012". He Has Been at the Forefront of the National Effort to Transform Health Care Delivery. New African Interviewed Him in Addis Ababa

From OAU to AU: Cameron Duodu Focuses on the Nomenclature of the African Union and Asks If It Was Really Advisable for the Organisation to Rebrand Itself from the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to the African Union (AU)

'ICC, a Court to Benefit Africa's Victims': The 10th Anniversary of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 1 July 2012 Presents a Good Opportunity to Examine Its Track Record Vis-a-Vis Its Largest Constituency, Africa, Writes Tiina Intelmann, (Pictured below), Estonia's Ambassador-at-Large for the ICC, Who Also Serves as the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC's Rome Statute

ICC Braveheart Speaks! This Is What Courtenay Griffiths QC, (Pictured above) Who Defended the Former the Former Liberian President Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Said at the ICC Conference Organised by IC Events in London on 18 May 2012

ICC Fatou Bensouda Takes Office

Is Africa on Trial? ... the Role of the ICC Examined

Julius Nyerere 'Without Unity, There Is No Future for Africa': An Extract from a Speech Given by Tanzania's Founding President, Julius Nyerere (Pictured Right), in the Ghanaian Capital, Accra, on 6 March 1997 on How He Saw African Unity in the 21st Century

Kwame Nkrumah: 'The People of Africa Are Crying for Unity'

Maada Bio 'Why I Want to Be President': For Julius Maada Bio, the Controversial Opposition Leader and Presidential Aspirant in November's Elections in Sierra Leone, the Issues Are Clear. He Wants to Ensure That Democracy Becomes Firmly Rooted in Sierra Leone and Economic Development Is Vigorously Pursued in the Country. He Talked to Stephen Williams about His Vision

Malawi 100 Days of Joyce Banda: How Do Malawians See the First 100 Days of Their New President, Joyce Banda? Mixed Reactions, Reports Lameck Masina from Lilongwe

Nigeria Disaster from the Skies: An Air Crash in Lagos, Claiming over 150 Lives, Further Exposes the Underbelly and Fault Lines of Nigeria's Aviation Industry, as Osasu Obayiuwana, Our Associate Editor, Reports from Lagos

Rwanda Going Green, Going Clean: Rwanda Is Focussing on a Bold Renewable Energy Policy to Achieve the Adequate and Reliable Electricity Provision That Is a Prerequisite for Economic Growth. Could This Also Be the Key for the Many African Countries Where Daily Blackouts Are a Fact of Life? Stephen Williams Examines the Issues

The Curse of the Internet: Discussions on the Internet Can Be Either Extremely Depressing or Inspiringly Exultant. So Watch out. the Internet Can Turn Normal People Who Are Ordinarily Inoffensive into What Has Become Known as "Trolls"

The Time of Our Lives: As the African-American Poet, Arthur Flowers, Once Wrote-"What We Know in Our Heads, Our Children Will Know in Their Hearts, Our Generations in Their Soul". Please Take Three Minutes out on 1 August in Silent Remembrance of Our Dead

The Travails of Raila Odinga: Just When He Is So Close to the Prize-Of Becoming Kenya's Next President-Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Ranks Are Being Depleted by the Desertion of His Heavyweight Political Allies. What, in the Name of Politics, Is Happening to the Man Heavily Tipped to Become Kenya's Fourth President? Wanjohi Kabukuru Reports from Nairobi

Time for Africa to Reclaim the Black Body

What a Responsible Media Can Do: Amadou Mahtar BA (Pictured below), the CEO of the African Media Initiative (AMI), Writes about the Need for a Balanced Media in Africa

Why Are We So Blessed? "Europe Was Created by History. America Was Created by Philosophy"-Margaret Thatcher

Why the AU Is Courting the Diaspora: Africa Freedom Day, Which Falls on 25 May Every Year, Is Always an Important Date on the Continent's Post-Independence Calendar as It Commemorates the Founding of the OAU. This Year, the Day Was Even More Poignant When the AU, the South African Government, and the Pan-African Parliament Jointly Hosted the First Ever Global African Diaspora Summit. Belinda Otas Attended the Event

Wind of Change Blows over Diego Garcia: After Years of Prevarication, Britain Has Signalled That It Is Willing to Return to the Negotiating Table with Mauritius to Discuss the Status of the Chagos Archipelago (Best Known for Its Island of Diego Garcia, Pictured below, Where the US Has a Huge Military Base). Sean Carey Reports

Zimbabwe Human Rights under the Microscope: In May, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, Visited Zimbabwe to See Things for Herself. She Pronounced Herself "Happy" with Land Reform, but Was 'Concerned' with Political Polarisation in the Country. and Then She Said the Unsayable: "Sanctions Have Had a Harmful Impact on Zimbabweans." Tichaona Zindoga Reports from Harare