Organization of African Unity closes shop, but few will miss it AP Worldstream | July 7, 2002| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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Dateline: JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Derided as a club for dictators and a useless bureaucratic talk shop, the Organization of African Unity will hardly be missed when it disbands Tuesday.

The 53-nation body is being replaced by the African Union, a new organization modeled on the European Union that hopes to closely bind its members together, promote human rights and good government and enrich the world's poorest continent.

In its 39 years of existence, the OAU accomplished none of that.

"It appears as if its primary goal has been to maintain despots in ...

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