Sources: BBC
Three people are killed and eight others are injured when an African Union helicopter crashes in Lower Shabelle, Somalia. 2023-02-26
The African Union suspends Burkina Faso in response to last week's coup d'état. 2022-01-31
South Africa concludes the sale of their Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines to the African Union after the country stopped using these vaccines because they were found to be not highly effective against the 501.V2 variant. 2021-03-21
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 149 passengers and eight crew members onboard crashes en route to Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 persons on board. 2019-03-10
al Shabaab militants overrun an African Union base in southern Somalia with unconfirmed reports of dozens of soldiers dead. 2016-01-15
The African Union deploys a 5,000-strong force in the hope of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony. 2012-03-24
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
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
The African Union suspends Côte d'Ivoire following the disputed presidential election. 2010-12-9
President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir says the "mandate" of the United Nations, African Union and international aid organisations in Darfur is to "support government authorities" and that expulsion is the other option. 2010-08-8