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The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has called on African Union (AU) leaders to step up direct engagement to defuse South Sudan’s deepening political crisis. Speaking in Juba Monday during a visit by a high-level AU Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) delegation, RJMEC Chief of Staff Ambassador Berhanu Kebede urged the AU and […]
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) unanimously adopted, under Morocco’s chairmanship in March, the Common African Position (CAP) on the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, marking a significant step in shaping the global discourse on peacebuilding ahead of this year’s review of the Architecture in New York. This CAP, based on African consensus and […]
Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister, Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré, has commended Morocco’s leadership at the helm of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (CPS-UA). Traoré commended Rabat’s diplomatic approach in convening informal consultations on March 18 with six African nations—Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Sudan—all currently undergoing political transitions. The meeting, held under Morocco’s […]
The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) underscored the importance of integrating environmental and climate dimensions, including agricultural adaptation, into peace, security, and development strategies in Africa. In a communiqué issued on Saturday following a meeting on “Climate Change: Challenges to Peace and Security in Africa,” held recently under the chairmanship […]
Morocco pleaded Thursday before the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU-PSC) for an ethical, responsible, beneficial, and sovereign African AI and suggested a series of concrete measures to fulfil this goal and build an African elite in AI. “The future of AI in Africa can’t sidestep the need to build an African […]
Morocco, as chair of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (AU-PSC) for March, reaffirmed on Wednesday in Addis Ababa that fighting violent extremism requires a proactive approach focused on prevention and reintegration. Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the AU and UNECA, Mohamed Arrouchi, who chaired a PSC videoconference meeting devoted to “deradicalization as a leverage […]
Morocco highlighted, on Tuesday before the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (AU-PSC), the urgent need to support countries in political transition to accelerate their return to the pan-African organization. During informal consultations with Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Sudan, convened by the Kingdom as AU PSC chair for the month of March, […]
Morocco called, on Friday evening before the meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU-PSC) at the level of Heads of State and Government, for a solution through dialogue that would guarantee the territorial integrity and stability of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), reaffirmed its opposition to all forms of separatism, and […]
Morocco reiterated, during an emergency ministerial meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU-PSC) convened Tuesday on the recent developments in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its unwavering commitment to the fundamental principles of state sovereignty, national and territorial unity, neighborliness, and non-interference in internal affairs. The Kingdom reaffirms its firm […]
Morocco has called on the Peace & Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) to take action against those recruiting and using child soldiers in armed conflicts. Addressing remotely the PSC meeting convening Tuesday in Addis Ababa, the Moroccan delegation stressed the need for a comprehensive and inclusive approach combining action and prevention against […]