Increasingly less popular AU begins annual summitAP, NAIROBIAfrica’s top regional body is hosting its annual summit in Ethiopia this weekend to discuss the future of the continent of about 1.4 billion people, but across the continent the organization is becoming less popular. The African Union Headquarters building in Addis Ababa is pictured yesterday. “What the youth is really asking and why people are frustrated is because this is not an African Union for citizens. It’s not a people-driven African Union,” Louw-Vaudran added. At the 39th AU Summit in Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa yesterday and today, the theme is water and sanitation.

Source: Taipei Times February 14, 2026 17:22 UTC