Africa needs conflict prevention, since the continent is confronted with unprecedented threats

It is far from speaking and one Security council Meeting aimed at the most important issues with which Africa and cooperation between the UN and the African Union (AU) are confronted – a continental organization consisting of 55 African member states.

He warned that “worries remain in some parts of the continent about the number and complexity of conflicts.”

He said that these conflicts were often exacerbated by “weak or ineffective state authority, violence extremism conducive to terrorist activities, the unfair management of natural resources, organized crime, the impact of climate change, acute food insecurity and in some cases denial of fundamental human rights.”

Conflicts in the Horn of Africa, Sudan, Zuid -Sudan and the Great Lakes region – including the Democratic Republic of Congo – have caused widespread relocation and several humanitarian emergency situations.

“No military solution can solve underlying causes of the conflict in the DRC or elsewhere in Africa,” said Mr. Ondanga-anyanga. “I call on this council to continue to use the influence of its influence on peaceful settlement of outstanding issues between the parties.”

The special representative emphasized two critical conflict -related issues to councilors: climate change as a conflict multi -fighter and the challenges that women and girls are confronted with in combat scales regions, whereby the consistent overflow effects of climate -induced uncertainty about all these crises were noticed.

Unprecedented wave of threats

Speaking for the AU, ambassador Mohamed Fathi Ahmed Edrees told the council

“Africa is confronted with an unprecedented wave of threats for its safety” and adds that “solutions are needed to achieve greater stability.”

The UN and the AU have long been collaborating on issues that influence the continent and according to the UN’s Onderanga-Anyanga “Significant progress has been made, in particular when supporting recent free, honest and credible elections in the continent-in Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and most recently Malawi, where a new was.”

Mr. Ondanga-Anyanga said that promoting consensus was more important than ever.

“The strong and sustainable partnership between the United Nations and the African Union, as well as with other regional organizations, forms the basis of effective and network multilateralism, essential to current complex, evolving and interconnected threats for peace, safety, development and human rights, in particular in Africa,” he said.

Respond to armed conflicts

In December 2023, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution to improve cooperation between the UN and AU.

Martha Pobee, a UN Assistant-Secretary General with a short focus on Africa, said that the resolution (2719) was performed as a means to tackle a long-term gap in the African Union in the African Union, in particular to respond better to armed conflicts on the African on the African on the African, with the African conflic. special. “

The work continues with the operationalization of the resolution on four important work flows with some reported progress.

Joint planning modalities for peace support operations guided by AU were approved in September, so that a shared decision -making framework was set up.

Mission support planning was also completed to guarantee coherent field operations.

Earlier in the year, the UN sketched financial rules for missions guided by AU, now under the legislative assessment.

Progress was also made in the field of compliance and the protection of citizens, including the strengthening of accountability mechanisms and the development of gender -sponsive policy.

The efforts “try to ensure that our cooperation is based on both strategic vision and operational practical usability,” said Mrs. Pobee.