Sources: BBC
Two Fano militants are killed and a third is arrested during a shootout with police near the Millennium Hall in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A civilian is also killed and two officers are wounded. 2024-04-12
More than 200 Islamist insurgents surrender to African Union troops in Jowhar, Somalia. Al-Shabaab kills a member of the Somali Parliament and threatens to kill more. 2012-09-23
Guinea-Bissau is suspended from the African Union one week after a coup d'état. 2012-04-17
The United Nations Security Council votes to increase the size of the African Union peacekeeping force to 18,000. 2012-02-22
In Addis Ababa, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the first African Union summit since the demise of Muammar Gaddafi, calling for improvement of LGBT rights. 2012-01-29
Somali government forces and African Union troops expel al Qaeda-linked militants from their last outpost in the western part of Mogadishu, opening up a main road in the city. 2011-06-3
A bomb blast in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa injures two people. 2011-03-25
Representatives of Muammar Gaddafi and his opponents in the Libyan rebel movement have been invited to attend a Friday African Union meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2011-03-24
At least 12 people are killed in fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia, between pro-government forces, African Union troops and the Islamist militant al-Shabaab group. 2010-11-1
The African Union says its forces have captured 40% of the Somali capital Mogadishu from Islamist militants in a recent offensive. 2010-10-7