African Union treaty comes into force
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African Union treaty comes into force |
| A new pan-African body, the African Union, formally comes into existence on Saturday, replacing the Organisation for African Unity.
The new body, loosely modelled on the European Union, is the brainchild of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi - but the idea harks back to pan-African aspirations of the 1950s.
From Abijan in Ivory Coast, David Bamford reports.
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