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Recognizing this, in September 1999 the OAU issued the Sirte Declaration, calling for a new body to take its place. On 9 July 2002, the OAU's Chairman, South African President Thabo Mbeki, formally dissolved the OAU and replaced it with the African Union (AU), its immediate successor, which upholds many of the founding principles of the OAU. [4]
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) or Organisation de l'Unité Africaine (OUA) was established on May 25, [4] 1963. It was disbanded on July 9, 2002 by its last chairperson , South African President Thabo Mbeki and replaced by the African Union .
Malcolm X did not have sufficient time to invest in the OAAU to help it flourish. After his death, Malcolm X's half-sister, Ella Little-Collins, took over the leadership of the OAAU, but dwindling membership and Malcolm X's absence eventually led to the collapse of the organization. [5] [6] [7]
The deadly collapse of an oceanfront apartment building in Surfside, Fla., just outside Miami on June 24 could end up being one of the worst such disasters in U.S. history. Here are other fatal ...
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Nkrumah was an activist student, organizing a group of expatriate African students in Pennsylvania and building it into the African Students Association of America and Canada, becoming its president. [58] Some members felt that the group should aspire for each colony to gain independence on its own; Nkrumah urged a Pan-African strategy.
Part of a red brick building on the city’s Main Street collapsed at around 5pm Sunday, with stunning photos showing at least one-fourth of the structure’s units destroyed.
The Obafemi Awolowo University massacre was a mass murder of students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria on 10 July 1999. [1] Five students of OAU were killed and eleven injured. [2] It was perpetrated by an organized death squad of 40 members of the Black Axe Confraternity branch at the university. They invaded the ...