Search: African Union,Africa (8 materials)

Regionalism in Africa at the Present Stage

... ECOWAS—while in the cases of Chad in 2021 as well as Sudan in 2019 and 2021, the regional organizations did not exclude these countries from the communities and chose to engage in mediation, which seems to be a more productive response to the NCG in the African environment. The African Union sanctions coup leaders by prohibiting them from participating in elections and holding key government positions, but this provision is sometimes violated by the AU itself, which is obviously the evidence of a certain ambivalence in its policies ...

26.05.2023

When Africa Is Just Around the Corner

... Africa, Russia and China, whose active phase symbolically begins on February 25, 2023. Another interesting outcome was at the meeting between Minister S. Lavrov and President of Angola J. Lawrence, where the latte proposed to convene a summit of the African Union, where Africa’s place in the emerging world order would be discussed, from both economic (in the first place) and political perspectives. Fourth , the matter regarded Russia’s assistance in addressing the entire range of security challenges, including through ...

02.02.2023

Africa-Russia+: Achievements, Problems, Prospects

RIAC and Africa Business Initiative Union Joint Report #53/2020 RIAC and Africa Business Initiative Union Joint Report #53/2020 Africa entered the 21st century with significant achievements and challenges relevant for both the development of the continent and ...

05.03.2020

Fighting the Trend: How Africa is Uniting Amidst the Global Retreat from Multilateralism

... of negotiations. Africa is rapidly changing and the continent is approaching a point of change that could reaffirm the continent’s new geopolitical role. With Nigeria and Benin having signed the AfCFTA Agreement at the Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in Niamey, Niger, the African movement of multilateralism is gaining force. And whilst the 2019 G20 Leaders’ Declaration underlined global willingness to “realize a free, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, predictable and stable trade and investment environment”,...

12.07.2019

African Union-European Union Summit: The Security – Development Nexus in a New Way

... themselves to working together to put an end to the brutal treatment of migrants and refugees in that country. The summit ended with the adoption of a plan for the immediate evacuation of some 3,800 African migrants caught up in Libya. According to the African Union, Libya may have up to 700,000 Africans, many of whom suffered from violence and even were sold into slavery. In addition, issues of promoting mobility were discussed. Thus, the EU and African countries’ leaders agreed to support the mobility of students, staff and academics on the ...

07.12.2017

Keeping Peace in Africa in the 21st Century

... observers agree that long-term peace on the continent depends on the Africans’ ability to manage and resolve regional conflicts by themselves in the spirit of “African solutions to African problems”. The centrepiece of this philosophy adopted by the African Union is the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) — a system of institutions modelled after the UN and designed to serve as a platform for security cooperation between African states and the African Regional Economic Communities (the RECs ). The creation ...

17.03.2017

Africa: Obama’s Last Chance

... As for Ethiopia, along with Kenya, the U.S. considers it a key strategic security ally. The country is a major contributor to the African Union’s peacekeeping force fighting terrorist groups. Its capital Addis-Ababa is the headquarters of the African Union, the most influential international organisation on the African continent. Reuters Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn greets U.S. President Barack Obama as he arrives aboard Air Force One at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 26, 2015 Barack Obama that America was seeking ...

31.07.2015

United Africa?

... women and youth into all activities; 6. Resource mobilization; 7. Building a people-centered Union through active communication and branding; and 8. Strengthening the institutional capacity of the Union and all of its organs.(.) . Problems and Solutions Africa Renewal / Flickr After becoming elected by the African Union Commission as its Chairperson a year and a half ago, Dr. Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma, [4] who had previously occupied a number of ministerial posts in South Africa, rightly pointed out that Africa had to answer a lot of “tough questions....

08.07.2014

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  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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