{"id":4333,"date":"2002-08-04T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2002-08-04T06:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2016-01-04T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T07:54:01","slug":"au-africas-advance-toward-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/southern-africa-today\/au-africas-advance-toward-a-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"AU: Africa&#8217;s advance toward a better future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of the African Union (AU) in South Africa in July, replacing the 39-year-old Organisation of African Unity (OAU), has given a fresh impetus to Africa&#8217;s development agenda. The historic event is a culmination of the aspirations expressed 40 years ago by Africa&#8217;s founding fathers and visionaries such as Ghana&#8217;s Kwame Nkrumah and Julius yerere of Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/psadctoday\/vol 5 no 3 august 2002.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/v5n3_2002.jpg?resize=100%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/psadctoday\/vol 5 no 3 august 2002.pdf\">English<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of the African Union (AU) in South Africa in July, replacing the 39-year-old Organisation of African Unity (OAU), has given a fresh impetus to Africa&#8217;s development agenda. The historic event is a culmination of the aspirations expressed 40 years ago by Africa&#8217;s founding fathers and visionaries such as Ghana&#8217;s Kwame Nkrumah and Julius [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-southern-africa-today"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/v5n3_2002s.jpg?fit=100%2C134&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h5b0-17T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}