African Union demands 'immediate' halt to Libya attacks (but the Arab League said it was ok)

yahoo ^ | 3/19/2011 | afp

[tobyhill]

The African Union's panel on Libya Sunday called for an "immediate stop" to all attacks after the United States, France and Britain launched military action against Moamer Kadhafi's forces.

After a more than four-hour meeting in the Mauritanian capital, the body also asked Libyan authorities to ensure "humanitarian aid to those in need," as well as the "protection of foreigners, including African expatriates living in Libya."

It underscored the need for "necessary political reforms to eliminate the causes of the present crisis" but at the same time called for "restraint" from the international community to avoid "serious humanitarian consequences."

The panel also announced a meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on March 25, along with representatives from the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Conference, the European Union and the United Nations to "put in place a mechanism for consultation and concerted action" to resolve the Libyan crisis.

The AU committee on Libya is composed of five African heads of state. But the Nouakchott meeting was only attended by the presidents of Mauritania, Mali and Congo. South Africa and Uganda were represented by ministers.

[BilLies]

I guess ObamaNation will have to live with the collateral damage that the ABCCBSNBCCNNMerde will be showing and reporting every minute of the day./s

[seowulf]

What do the Rotary Club and the Knights of Columbus want?

[Happy Rain]

The maladroit and totally corrupt military supported socialist dictatorships of Africa South of the nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea want the world to witness a united Africa no matter the cause.
Leftover Soviet/Cuba/Chicom Marxist anachronistic flatulence from the “glorious” age of genocidal massacres and economical suicides following the decolonizing "uhuru" of the 50s and 60s.

[Paradox]

"The idea of creating the AU was revived in the mid-1990s under the leadership of Libyan head of state Muammar al-Gaddafi:"

No surprise there.

[bert]

Missing were Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon

[PFC]

Not a surprise. Gaddafi used to lead the organization and it is made up of crazy tyrants who consider atrocities against their own civilians good governance.

[Hardraade]

Gadaffi also funded Obama’s friends, NOI and rev. Wright, and Zarkozy.

This is all very amusing but will end very badly.

[omega4179]

Will his Arab side overpowers his Kenyan roots.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Hasn’t Daffy hired a bunch of African (black, not Arab) mercenaries? That’s the African Union’s people getting bombed there!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks tobyhill.

The African Union's panel on Libya Sunday called for an "immediate stop" to all attacks after the United States, France and Britain launched military action against Moamer Kadhafi's forces.