{"id":1518326,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1518326/?format=json","text_counter":209,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"RECALLING THAT, the African Union (AU), the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was launched in 2002 as a continental body consisting of the 55-member states that make up the countries of the African Continent, with the vision of creating an Integrated, Prosperous and PeacefulAfrica, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the globalarena;"}