Haiti to join African Union

[ingemann]

AU is not a very functional organization. Does not really matter.

I would say that AU have been a great success, it have made the African continent much more stable, thanks to their hostility to coups, support of free elections, willingness to deliver soldiers against local uprisings and peacekeeper. Africa have not been as stable and peaceful as now ever. Of course I can't see what AU can do in Haiti, so this is a purely symbolic act.

[ingemann]

AU is not a very functional organization. Does not really matter.

I would say that AU have been a great success, it have made the African continent much more stable, thanks to their hostility to coups, support of free elections, willingness to deliver soldiers against local uprisings and peacekeeper. Africa have not been as stable and peaceful as now ever. Of course I can't see what AU can do in Haiti, so this is a purely symbolic act.

How do we know all that progress has been due to the African Union?

Mostly by following what happens on the ground in Africa. As example Boko Haram have attacked  in and have bases Chad and Cameroun too, and here AU have helped the three countries cooperating in fighting Boko Haram with some success (especially in Cameroun). If we compare it to LRA where Uganda failed to cooperate with their neighbours until the last few years (because of AU again). When we have Somalia where AU have helped improvingthe situation with boots on the ground. So yes AU have been a force of staability in Africa, and Africa needed that more than anything else.

[ingemann]

Africa have not been as stable and peaceful as now ever.

Hmm, maybe replacing this by something like 'since the beginning of Western colonization' could eventually be a bit wiser.

No; EVER is correct. Africa was not some kind of utopia before the Europeans came, in fact the transatlantic slavery was only possible because of the lack of centralising powers in Subsaharan Africa and the already existing slave trade network (to service the Arabs).