Ramaphosa to discuss worsening situations in Libya, Sudan sabcnews
has called an Emergency Summit in his capacity as the AU Chairperson.
With just eight months before the year ends, the African Union is racing against time to meet its self-imposed deadline of silencing the guns by 2020.and the war in Libya is far from over.
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