#SpyCables: African Union Chief assassination plot

Dlamini-Zuma
Dlamini-Zuma

Documents show South African and Ethiopian agencies in crisis, suspected Sudan, amid reported 2012 plot to kill AU chief, reports by Al Jazeera

Secret intelligence documents leaked to Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit reveal that spies in Addis Ababa were alerted to a plot by "an unnamed state" 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.

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