AU summit: Peace and Security Council endorses idea of ​​inter-Libyan forum

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A more united Africa and a bolder United Nations are the commitments made on Saturday in Addis Ababa, on the eve of the 33rd AU summit, in favor of the G5 Sahel countries. During this Peace and Security Council, an inter-Libyan reconciliation forum was also set up.

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With our special correspondents in Addis Ababa, Christophe Boisbouvier and Carine Frenk

In the Sahel, there are strong calls for solidarity from the heads of state of the G5 Sahel. “ It is not enough to offer us political support, we also need to be given military and financial support. We must cross the rubicond, "launched this Saturday evening in Addis Ababa Burkinabè Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who currently chairs the G5 Sahel.

We have to leave the beaten track so that we can show solidarity, both financially and in the fight against terrorism.

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

" These are occasions for us to congratulate ourselves on the liveliness of solidarity around our States, but which are not enough, warns Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. We are, in this Sahel, in duty of the world : it is a choice of life, of civilization. What is going on in the Sahel clashes with all our values: when death becomes the ultimate goal of a fight, it is not values ​​in which I recognize myself. But this is the case today: when you come to a mosque and trigger death there, when you go to the markets, places of conviviality in the Sahel, that you also sow death and terror there . So we owe it to all of these values. This mission therefore deserves to be accompanied so that we can take these people gold from the Sahel. "

There was also the SOS of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who this Saturday afternoon, at the headquarters of the African Union, asked that the peace forces now have a much more robust mandate from the from the Security Council and have sustainable funding. A transparent call to the American Donald Trump.

Concretely, the new acting president of the African Union, the South African Cyril Ramaphosa should organize next May in Pretoria an extraordinary summit on the fight against terrorism on a continent-wide scale.

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Libya: towards an "inclusive" forum on African soil, the UN validates

On Libya, the African Union wants to bring another voice and proposes another path to resolve this conflict. This passes, explain several African diplomats, by a real cease-fire agreement, the end of interference, etc. But also and above all by a large inter-Libyan reconciliation forum. " Today, the process that is led by the United Nations only concerns the two belligerents and their respective sponsors, but if we want to achieve lasting peace, other actors must be included ," said a senior diplomat. who quotes the supporters of the old regime, the khadafists but also the big tribes and civil society.

The Peace and Security Council has set up this great reconciliation forum to be held on African soil. Will it take place in Algiers as proposed by Abdelmajid Tebboune or in Addis Ababa as suggested by Denis Sassou-Nguesso? " It is the preparatory committee that will decide, " announced this Saturday evening the president of Congo-Brazzaville, who also insists on the necessary inclusiveness of this forum.

In Berlin, it was clearly decided that Africa should organize the inclusive inter-Libyan peace and reconciliation conference.

Denis Sassou-Nguesso welcomes the inter-Libyan reconciliation forum on African soil

Earlier today, the UN secretary-general announced that the UN is supporting this African initiative, a sign that relations are improving between two organizations on the Libyan issue.

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