Peace in Africa: an uphill battle for the AU
The AU has missed its deadline for ‘silencing the guns’ in Africa. But as Ramaphosa takes the reins of the continental body, he plans to push the peace agenda alongside that of economic development
13 February 2020 - 05:00
Seven years ago, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, then AU Commission chair, sat down to pen an e-mail from the future. "Few believed that our pledge in the [AU’s] 50th anniversary declaration to silence the guns by 2020 was possible," she wrote.
And, indeed, it wasn’t. It’s 2020, and the guns in Africa are far from silent...
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