The New Agenda for Peace provides an opening for continental actors to advance priorities at the global level. However, this requires the AU to deliver on revamping its own multilateral system as a springboard to reforming global multilateralism.
Tag: africa
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The UN should create a new strategic moment to influence Mali’s trajectory positively.
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Complex threats in places like the Sahel, Lake Chad Basin, Somalia, eastern DRC, and Northern Mozambique have led to ad-hoc security arrangements becoming a growing norm.
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The conflict has been propped up by blame games, ineffective diplomacy, recurring geopolitical tensions and proxy warfare in the Great Lakes region, and the Congolese state’s weak commitment to addressing grievances that drive armed group proliferation.
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Ten years after MINUSMA was established, the mission’s future is more uncertain than ever.
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The Russian government-affiliated Wagner Group has gained widespread attention for its brutal tactics in the Central African Republic and Mali.
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Voters in Africa’s largest democracy will go to the polls to pick a new president on Feb. 25, 2023.
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A peace deal between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian government signed in November 2022 raised hopes that the war in northern Ethiopia—one of the world’s deadliest conflicts in recent years—was finally drawing to a close.
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While the current crisis is unlikely to be resolved without military force, any hope for success requires that operations remain closely tied to a political process, and that neighboring countries remain accountable to support the security and sovereignty of the DRC.
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Last week, at least 15 people died in protests demanding UN peacekeepers leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The week before, the military junta ruling Mali halted troop rotations for the UN mission there and ejected the mission’s deputy spokesperson. These incidents highlight deep-seated crises of consent and legitimacy.
