Sudanese Paper Says AU Failed "Since the Day It Was Formed"

By: iStockAnalyst Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:10 AM Text of editorial in English Headlined: "AU failure in Cairo" by opposition Sudanese newspaper Khartoum Monitor on 8 July The African Union (AU), true to form has allowed life President Robert Gabriel Mugabe off the hook. Meeting in Egypt called for a national unity government in Zimbabwe despite the sham elections that Mugabe imposed on his people. The AU has been a failure since the day it was formed in 1964. It has wasted billions of dollars of the money for poor Africans in the form of salaries, cars, buildings etc without giving them much in return. It spent almost three days discussing Zimbabwe and all it could come up with is a national unity government, giving a thief and a killer another lease of life. To try to compare Zimbabwe with Kenya is wrong and unfair. In... [read full story]