• The Chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity served as the head of the Organisation of African Unity, a rotating position. Chairperson of the...
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  • The Secretary General was head of the Secretariat of the Organisation of African Unity. "Former Secretaries General of the OAU". African Union. Retrieved...
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    The Chairperson of the African Union is the ceremonial head of the African Union (AU) elected by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government for a one-year...
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    The Chairperson of the African Union Commission is the head of the African Union Commission. On 30 January 2017, after seven rounds of voting, Chad's Moussa...
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    Joseph Arthur Ankrah (category Chairpersons of the African Union)
    as Chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity from 24 February 1966 to 5 November 1966. Previously, Ankrah was appointed the first commander of the...
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    The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; French: Organisation de l'unité africaine, OUA) was an intergovernmental organization established on 25 May 1963...
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    with the Arab world, eventually joining the Arab League (AL) in 1974. That same year, Barre also served as chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity...
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    Abdou Diouf (category Secretaries-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
    President of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) from 1985 to 1986. Soon after his election, he made a personal plea to François Mitterrand, the President...
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    Houari Boumédiène (category Members of the National Liberation Front (Algeria))
    promoting third-world cooperation. In the United Nations, he called for a unity built on equal status for western and ex-colonial nations, and brought about...
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  • Declaration was the resolution adopted by the Organisation of African Unity on September 9, 1999 at Sirte, Libya, to create the African Union. The Constitutive...
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    Siad Barre (category People of the Cold War)
    with the Arab world, eventually joining the Arab League in 1974. That same year, Barre also served as chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)...
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    Yakubu Gowon (category Alumni of the University of Warwick)
    Nigerian nationalist, and a believer in the unity and oneness of Nigeria. Gowon's rise to power followed the July 1966 counter-coup and cemented military...
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    Claude (December 1991). "Organisation of African Unity and the Promotion of Human Rights". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 29 (4): 535–555. doi:10...
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    basic freedoms in the African continent. It emerged under the aegis of the Organisation of African Unity (since replaced by the African Union) which, at...
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    advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union...
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    Yoweri Museveni (category Commonwealth Chairpersons-in-Office)
    in favor of Besigye. Museveni was elected chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1991 and 1992. Perhaps Museveni's most widely noted...
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    unite under one political party. The unity of the two political parties; shall be achieved under the name Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front)...
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    in slaves, African slavery, and European imperialism. Pan-African thought influenced the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (since succeeded...
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    Africa have also undertaken national efforts to facilitate African diaspora relations, internationally. When the Organisation of African Unity (the African...
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    Nations. In 1963, he presided over the formation of the Organisation of African Unity, the precursor of the African Union, and served as its first chairman...
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    Independent Congress African National Congress African Renaissance Unity Party African Transformation Movement Agang South Africa Al Jama-ah Alliance for...
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    Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    Boolell remained president of the Labour Party until 1991. Ramgoolam was also the Chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity from 1976 to 1977. In 1939...
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  • President of Ghana. Ankrah also served as Chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity from 24 February to 5 November 1966. Mustapha Tettey Addy, traditional...
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    Omar Bongo (category Recipients of the Olympic Order)
    for nearly 42 years -; and on the African continent, as one of the last of the so-called "big men". Omar Bongo, Africa's "little Big Man", described as...
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    2001. The union was officially established on 9 July 2002 as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). In July 2004, the African Union's...
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    troops into the Second Congo War and chaired the Non-Aligned Movement (1986–1989), the Organisation of African Unity (1997–1998), and the African Union (2015–2016)...
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  • Mantungwa Community (AC) African Renaissance Unity (ARU) African Security Congress (ASC) Afrikaner Volksparty Agang South Africa All Things Are Possible...
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    attempts to unite Africa, including the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was established on 25 May 1963, and the African Economic Community...
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    Denis Sassou Nguesso (category Chairpersons of the African Union)
    as Chairman of the Organization of African Unity from 1986 to 1987. In late 1987 he faced down a serious military revolt in the north of the country with...
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    Moussa Faki (category Chairpersons of the African Union Commission)
    diplomat who has been the elected Chairperson of the African Union Commission since 14 March 2017. Previously he was Prime Minister of Chad from 24 June 2003...
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