allAfrica.com
25 May 2001
As Organization of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim announced Friday that the OAU will be replaced by a new "African Union" in a year, a senior U.S. official traveling with Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Libyan leader Muammar Qadafi, who first proposed the Union, as responsible for much of the instability in West Africa.
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