Africa: AU and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Highlight National Progress in Cotonou Meeting

Africa: AU and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Highlight National Progress in Cotonou Meeting

The Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department (PAPS) of the African Union Commission, through its Gender Peace and Security Programme (GPSP) and FemWise-Africa Secretariat, in partnership with Nett4Peace and GIZ, successfully convened Member States in Benin for the Annual Coordination Meeting on the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda, marking 25 years since UN Security…

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Africa: AU and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Highlight National Progress in Cotonou Meeting

Africa: A Strange Deal With Many Loose Ends – Washington’s Peace in Central Africa

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the…

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Africa: AU and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Highlight National Progress in Cotonou Meeting

Africa: President Hassan Sheikh Attends AU Peace and Security Summit in Ethiopia – Somalia’s Voice for African Stability

– Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, where he is attending a high-level summit of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC), a key body tasked with addressing conflicts across the continent. The summit, convened by the African Union (AU), focuses on the prolonged crisis in Libya,…

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Africa: AU and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Highlight National Progress in Cotonou Meeting

Africa: Communiqué From the 1291st Meeting of the Peace and Security Council, Held On 24 July 2025 At the Heads of State and Government (Hosg) Level On Consideration of the Situation in Libya

Adopted by the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) at its 1291st meeting, held on 24 July 2025 at the Heads of State and Government (HoSG) Level on Consideration of the Situation in Libya; The Peace and Security Council, Recalling the AU Decisions on the situation in Libya, in particular, Decision…

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Africa: AU and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Highlight National Progress in Cotonou Meeting

Africa CDC Statement On the Peace Agreement Between the Government of the DRC and the Congo River Alliance/M23

Addis Ababa — Africa CDC welcomes the signing of the Declaration of Principles on 19 July 2025 between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Congo River Alliance/M23. Africa CDC echoes the appreciation expressed by H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and applaud the political courage of…

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Who better than Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize? | Benjamin Netanyahu

Who better than Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize? | Benjamin Netanyahu

In the latest instalment of the “can’t-make-this-sh*t-up” contest in global politics and diplomacy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. In other words, the person currently presiding over the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has proposed that the world’s top peacemaking prize be awarded to…

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Africa: AU and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Highlight National Progress in Cotonou Meeting

Africa: Will the U.S. Brokered Rwanda-DR Congo Deal Pave the Way for Peace?

Domestic power struggles between President Tshisekedi and former president Kabila will likely complicate difficult negotiations with M23. Recent efforts to resolve the M23 crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken a new turn. After the breakdown of the Angola-led Luanda talks in mid-December 2024, a joint East African Community-Southern African Development…

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