The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has in the interest of the dire implications on peace and security on the continent and the imminent threat to West Africa's long-standing integration experience, called for a rapid resolution of the ensuing impasse between the regional blocs on the continent and the breakaway member...
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has in the interest of the dire implications on peace and security on the continent and the imminent threat to West Africa's long-standing integration experience, called for a rapid resolution of the ensuing impasse between the regional blocs on the continent and the breakaway member states of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
President Akufo-Addo has been speaking at the Second Reflections Forum on Unconstitutional Changes of Government, organised by the African Union Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security, and Peace and Security Council, on Monday, 18th March 2024, in Accra, Ghana. He was happy to note that, though a member state seems bent on undermining the Accra Declaration, and the collective stance on term extensions and unconstitutional changes of government,"Africa's position on this matter, in letter and spirit, is an unequivocal condemnation of any form of ascent to power that is outside constitutional provisions and inimical to democratic norms."
Continuing, he said,"what is more is that the territories within which the two coups in 2023 occurred have created a geographical spread, which many refer to as a"coup belt," stretching from the Atlantic coast, here in West Africa, through the Sahel to the Red Sea coast in the Horn of Africa." He was convinced that the celebrations are more about change than support for coups as various research institutions, including the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre and the Institute for Security Studies, have duplicitously shed light on this.
Whilst commending the AU Commission for the comprehensive report on peace and security it presented to the Assembly in February, he challenged them to go further than the diplomatically couched recommendations to provide the Assembly with critical points on what they must do.
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