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The Organization of African Unity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Norman J. Padelford
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In the period since the publication of the special number of this journal devoted to Africa and international organization, one development of potentially considerable importance in this connection has transpired within Africa. This is the launching of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its embarcation on the task of forging a measure of peaceful collaboration out of the multitude of mixed aspirations and competing, indeed conflicting, interests of the African states.

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International Organization , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , Summer 1964 , pp. 521 - 542
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1964

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13 In this connection one might mention the fears aroused by reports of a $30 million Soviet ruble loan to Somalia to arm a force of 20,000. (The New York Times, November 14, 1963.)

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34 Reservations were made to the report on the question of languages by the United Arab Republic, Tunisia, Libya, and a few other delegations. But these were resolved in the final phraseology of Article XXIX.

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37 The New York Times, March 3, 1964. On other commissions see Africa Diary, 11 16–22, 1963 (Vol. 3, No. 47), p. 1454Google Scholar. The OAU members agreed to create by July 1965 an African development bank with an initial capitalization of $300 million. (The Christian Science Monitor, August 7 and 21, 1963.)

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41 The New York Times, February 13 and 15, 1964. According to the journal East Africa and Rhodesia, February 20, 1964, Algeria, Ethiopia, and Nigeria were asked to supply forces for Tanganyika for six months with Tanganyika having control over their deployment. The New York Times reported March 3, 1964, that British forces had already left Uganda and were to be replaced shortly by Nigerian forces in Tanganyika. It was stated that they would remain longer, however, in Kenya and that they had been given staging and training rights.

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