Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stepped down as chairman of the
53-nation African Union, but not without firing a few verbal broadsides
at the organization.
Mr. Gadhafi chastised his fellow heads of state for refusing to go along with his plan for a "United States of Africa."
All was calm on the surface. Africa's heads of state went into a conference room and emerged 20 minutes later to say Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutarika would assume the rotating African Union chairmanship for the coming year. But that announcement hid a furious behind-the-scenes battle for control of the continental organization that witnesses say nearly broke out in fisticuffs the night before.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had hoped to stay on for a second term to see through his plan for greater political and economic unification. But after handing over the chairmanship to the Malawian leader, Mr. Gadhafi let loose his wrath in a farewell speech, criticizing his colleagues for a lack of political will. His remarks in Arabic were translated by an AU interpreter.
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Source: Peter Heinlin, VOA
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