25 Pounds Khartoum Meeting of O.A.U.

Issued to mark the 1978 OAU Summit held in Khartoum, one of the more politically charged gatherings in the organization's history. Nimeiry's Sudan was positioning itself as a broker of pan-African stability at a moment when the continent was fractured by proxy conflicts tied to the Cold War — Angola, Ethiopia, and the Horn absorbing Soviet and Cuban intervention while Western-aligned states maneuvered against them. The summit itself produced little in the way of binding resolution.

Sudan struck commemorative gold for several OAU and Arab League occasions during this period, and the series has never attracted a deep collector following outside the region, keeping premiums modest relative to gold content.