African Union to send peace mission to Chad and Sudan (AFP)

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The African Union announced Friday it is sending a peace mission to Chad to try to ease long-running tensions between Ndjamena and neighbouring Sudan. "The African Union Commission is dispatching a mission to Chad... led by Burundi's former president Pierre Buyoya," following a decision in June by the bloc's Peace and Security Council (PSC), the AU said in a statement. "During its visit, the delegation will meet with Chadian authorities and other partaking groups," the statement added. The AU said the delegation will also travel to Sudan at a date to be arranged shortly. In June the 15-member PSC -- Africa's top conflict prevention body -- asked the AU Commission to send a mission to... [read full story]