25/02/2015
Spy cables reveal African Union assassination threat
Secret intelligence documents leaked to Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit reveal that spies in Addis Ababa were alerted to a plot by quot;an unnamed statequot; to kill a top African Union diplomat. Ethiopian agents later accused Sudan of involvement in the plan to assassinate African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who had previously served as South Africa's foreign minister. Dlamini-Zuma allegedly faced quot;an eminent threatquot; to her life in the Ethiopian capital which also hosts the headquarters of the African Union in October 2012, just days after she was appointed. The documents show that South African and Ethiopian intelligence agencies had been...
