The African Union passport: A waste of time

Very good read! I was also puzzled at why diplomats who have little travel issues were first to get the passports.<p>I live in South Africa, and with the ruling party and president seeing their eyes on potentially making the former AU chair our next potential president; I&#x27;ve been quite critical of her capabilities.<p>I have largely thought of the AU passport as Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma&#x27;s vanity project. There&#x27;s lots of structural issues which you mention, that make the practicality of the passport difficult, and than none have been dealt with says a lot.<p>My opinion is that ECOWAS have done better in managing their region than the AU has in intervening. The recent Gambian situation being a good example. I can&#x27;t talk much about SADC as we have Swaziland and Zimbabwe that are violating human rights with SA and other members not intervening much.<p>Your solution of adopting ECOWAS and&#x2F;or other frameworks is more feasible.

Sir, there seems to be a problem with your African Union Passport, would you please follow me to the local police station to waste 2-3 hours and contemplate the absence of a bribe?

I would imagine the real issue is that other countries will likely not accept it.

Good read, but the title is entirely misleading. It&#x27;s not a waste of time, the AU passport is extremely important to be rolled out.<p>But the current scheme is of course a sham, a mere propaganda piece. And maybe yet another scheme to get paid bribes a 2nd time. Nevertheless, you have to start somewhere to build pressure.

morocco is actually a member of the AU again, since a couple weeks<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldbulletin.net&#x2F;todays-news&#x2F;183967&#x2F;morocco-rejoins-african-union" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldbulletin.net&#x2F;todays-news&#x2F;183967&#x2F;morocco-rejo...</a>