Today, the heads of state from 53 African nations are in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa for the African Union summit. Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi has been named the 2009 chairman, and he’s proposed the formation of a pan-African government that would form a “United States of Africa”. We’re joined by Lydia Polgreen, West Africa Bureau Chief of the New York Times, who has been covering the summit. She joins us from Dakar, Senegal.

For more, read Lydia Polgreen's article, Qaddafi, as New African Union Head, Will Seek Single State in the New York Times.