ABSTRACT
The Organization of African Unity (OAU) was created as a convenient cover for the bad governance and the political banalities of the vast majority of African governments as well as a disguise for their close links with extra-African powers. Accordingly, the OAU Secretary General presented a proposal to create an OAU Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution to the Summit in Dakar, Senegal, in June 1992. There was a big debate concerning peacekeeping as opposed to peacemaking functions of the proposed OAU Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution. The OAU Peace Fund was launched by the Current Chairman of the OAU Council of Ministers, Foreign Minister Amr Mussa of Egypt, on 18 November 1993. The Special Representative of the OAU Secretary General arrived in Rwanda on 31 July 1992 to "ensure an OAU presence on the eve of the cease-fire".
