| 1. | EDITORIAL: Let's Make Accra AU Summit A Success |
| As our august visitors, prior to the Accra Summit of Heads of State of the African Union, begin to arrive for the preparatory sessions, it should now dawn on us that this historic summit should be devoid of politics. |
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| 2. | Debate on Future Direction Of Africa Set For July 1 |
| The grand debate on the future direction of the continental union, the African Union (AU), is set for Sunday, July 1.
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| 3. | AU Summit Historic Chance For Africa |
| Senegalese Minister for Foreign Affair’s, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, has said the African Union (AU) summit scheduled to take place in Accra on July 1-2 will provide a “historic chance” for the formation of an African Federal Government. |
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| 4. | AU Executive Council Session Opens In Accra |
| The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Alhaji Aliu Mahama today revealed that Africa has made appreciable progress in restoring democracy on the continent despite challenges of war, debt burden and inequitable trading relations. |
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| 5. | Add Darfur to AU Summit Agenda |
| Civil Society Groups working for peace in Darfur have appealed to the Ghana Government to push Darfur onto the agenda for the AU summit, in order to find a lasting solution to the war. |
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| 6. | Foreign Ministers Arrive For Summit |
| A number of African foreign ministers have arrived in the country to participate in the Council of Ministers meeting, which comes off on Saturday, July 30, 2007. |
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| 7. | 52 Heads of States expected in Ghana |
| Fifty-two African Heads of State are expected in the country to participate in the Ninth Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) scheduled for July 1-3, 2007. |
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| 8. | Ratify Protocol On The African Charter On The Rights Of Women |
| A Research Fellow yesterday called for the ratification of the Protocol on the African charter on the Rights of Women as a first step towards the formation of the United States of Africa.
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| 9. | Make Women Part Of The Union Government Drive |
| The Network of African Women Civil Society Organisations under the “Gender is My Agenda” campaign last Monday appealed to Heads of State attending African Union (AU) Summit in Accra to involve women in future Union Government.
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| 10. | 13 Foreigners for AU Marathon Summit |
| Thirteen foreign marathoners, including a Kenyan and five Ethiopians, have confirmed their participation in Sunday’s African Unity Marathon in Accra. |
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| 11. | Foreign Minister Briefs Media On AU Summit |
| Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, today met with the local and international media to brief them on preparations made towards the forth-coming Africa Union (A.U) Summit which opens in Accra on the July 1, 2007. |
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| 12. | 14th AU Summit Opens In Accra |
| Ghana Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (NEPAD), has said the AU summit is crucial as it is the way forward for the African Unity. This was at the opening of the 14th summit of the Permanent Representative Committee, yesterday in Accra. |
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| 13. | African Union Government Debate Kicks Off |
| When the 14th Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) of the African Union (AU) opened last Friday in Accra, the large white banner behind the podium read: “The Grand Debate on Union Government”, which is the main theme for the Ninth Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly.
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| 14. | African Union Permanent Rep Committee Session Opens. |
| The 14th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Permanent Representative Committee (PRC) has opened in Accra ahead of the 11th African Union Executive Council meeting on June 28, 2007. |
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| 15. | African Leaders Must Address Human Rights Issues |
| Amnesty International (AI), an international human rights advocacy body has urged the African Union (AU) and African Governments to address human rights issues as an integral component of strategies for dealing with conflicts on the Continent. |
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| 16. | High Security Alert At AU Summit |
| The 9th Summit of the African Union (AU) would go down in the history this country as probably the single occasion that attracted the highest level of security alertness in terms of technology and personnel. |
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| 17. | Africans Push For AU Government |
| PARTICIPANTS at the Pan African People’s Assembly Conference in Accra on Friday, in a resolution, endorsed the proposed African Union government. |
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| 18. | Security Exercises For AU Summit Starts June 23 |
| The Ghana Police Service has announced for the information of the public that from Saturday June 23, 2007 to Friday July 6, 2007, security exercises in connection with the AU Summit will start in earnest. |
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| 19. | The AU Summit, How Different Will It Be Now? |
| Five decades after Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, had called for an African unity, the dream is yet to be realized. |
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| 20. | Women Fight For Place in AU Agenda |
| A conference aimed at mainstreaming gender in the agenda of the African Union Summit has opened in Accra. |
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| 21. | An Agenda For The African Union |
| For decades the African has been inundated with hopes and aspirations for higher standards of living vis-à-vis accelerated socio economic development. |
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| 22. | Information For AU Summit Press Coverage |
| All local Media Practitioners are please requested to report at the Secretariat of the Ghana Journalists Association for registration towards the forthcoming AU Summit in Accra.
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| 23. | Reflect On Pace Of Union Government For Africa |
| The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Co-operation and NEPAD, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday opened an African Union (AU)-civil society organizations (CSOs) pre-summit in Accra, with a call on civil society groups to reflect on the pace and pattern of the Union Government for Africa. |
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| 24. | Consider Cultural Issues In The Coming AU Summit - Prof. Adams |
| Professor Anne Adams, Director of the Du Bois Centre for Pan-African Culture has noted that any political and economic goals that the upcoming African Union Summit would set must take into account cultural factors. |
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| 25. | African Countries Gear Up For AU Summit In Accra |
| Representatives of various African countries in Ghana, have jointly launched an exposition in preparation for the African Union Summit slated for Accra
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| 26. | On African Unity |
| I Read in the Daily Graphic that a summit of the African Union (AU) will be held in Accra in June 2007. The main item on the agenda of the meeting will be the question of the future of African unity. |
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Speech Delivered By The President Of Liberia, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf At The assembly Of The African Union
