Should African Union Summit Meet in Addis?

According to insiders, the African Union summit was supposed to have taken place in Gabon, but was then moved to Equatorial Guinea. Clearly, more and more AU member states are reluctant to host what used to be a lavish showing off by Africa's powerful leaders, writes Liesl Louw-Vaudran from the Institute for Security Studies.

The African Union summit which was held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2011.

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