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The theme of the two-day summit is “Silencing the Guns”

The focus on conflicts marks a departure from multiple years of debate, centered on reforming the AU — including its funding structure — and the implementation of a continent-wide free trade area

In his opening remarks to assembled heads of state Sunday, AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat painted a bleak picture of the continent’s security situation, citing “terrorism, intercommunal conflict and pre- and post-election crises”.

He also noted that while some progress has been made recently in Central African Republic and Sudan, long-running conflicts in places such as Libya and South Sudan have been joined by new crises from Cameroon to Mozambique

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Faki stressed that it would take more than military action to address the “root causes” of African conflicts, namely poverty and social exclusion.

He reiterated the AU’s determination to find “African solutions to African problems”.

Yet his remarks came as multiple African leaders were acknowledging the AU’s failure to achieve the goal adopted in 2013 of ending “all wars in Africa by 2020

Otunba T.J Abass

The Publisher, Ekohotblog.com

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