We're joined from the Organisation of African Unity Summit in Ouagadougou by the BBC's West African Correspondent, Mark Doyle.
Last month, the Organisation of African Unity voted to dilute some of the measures immediately and drop the embargo altogether in September.
Instead, the African Union is coming increasingly to resemble its discredited and unlamented predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity, a mutual-protection club for dodgy presidents.
Amid renewed fighting, the Ethiopian government said it would accept a ceasefire proposal already approved by Eritrea, and drafted by the Organisation of African Unity.
Eritrea, acknowledging defeat at least temporarily, announced that it would now accept the Organisation of African Unity's peace proposals, which Ethiopia had endorsed in November.
At an Organisation of African Unity meeting in Algiers, attended by a record 42 leaders, Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed to a plan to end their 13-month border war.
One of the first international bodies to endorse the concept, or a version of it, was the African Union, which emerged from the discredited Organisation of African Unity.
Abdoulaye Bathily, a Senegalese mediator sent to the island by the Organisation of African Unity, admits he has achieved nothing and worries that the upheaval will provoke trouble between different highland and coastal ethnic groups.
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However, he told relatives how the sister of one of the victims was not convinced that Megrahi had committed the crime and how a four-judge commission from the Organisation of African Unity has criticised the conviction.
He began to see himself as the leader of the Third World, the voice of the world's poor, the King of Africa (when, in 2009, he chaired the Organisation of African Unity) and the patron of world revolution.
He led a mission from the World Council of Churches to apartheid South Africa, observed that country's constitutional convention on behalf of the Commonwealth, and tried to broker peace in Liberia on behalf of the Organisation of African Unity.
From 1991 to 2000, Mr. Menkerios represented the Eritrean Government in various capacities, including as Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Organisation of African Unity, Special Envoy to Somalia and also the Great Lakes region, and as Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
In addition, Mr Kabila's men have clumsily blocked efforts by Sir Ketumile Masire, a former Botswanan president chosen to mediate by the Organisation of African Unity, to prepare the ground for a dialogue between the government and its armed and unarmed opposition.
One course might be to stop pretending it is just another member of the Organisation of African Unity or Southern African Development Community, and start developing bilateral relations with other African countries, perhaps extending the South African Customs Union free-trade agreement to them.
It was organised by UNESCO in co-operation with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Organisation for African Unity and the African Women Committee for Peace and Development.
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