Seven years ago, the African Union set the target of silencing the guns by 2020. We are already in the first month of this target year but there are no signs that conflict is about to retreat completely from our continent, writes Eddy Maloka.
Seven years ago, the African Union set the target of silencing the guns on our continent by 2020.
The ongoing flames in Libya are a call to action, to find an African solution to this African problem. Rather, it was largely declaratory and political, made at the heat of the moment of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the AU in 2013.As they put it in their solemn declaration on the 50th Anniversary of the OAU/AU, our leaders pledged “not to bequeath the burden of conflicts to the next generation of Africans and undertake to end all wars in Africa by 2020.”
The efforts to silence the guns should go beyond the slogan, and boost considerably the capacity of African institutions to “pre-empt” conflicts in a more comprehensive and timely manner, rather than as a “reactive” conflict resolution approach. African leaders pose for a group photograph at the opening session of the 33rd AfricanUnion Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Picture: AP Photo
The scope of the AU’s interventions should be broadened to also include systematically structural conflict prevention that addresses the long-term root causes of potential violent conflict, and recognised in the 2015 AU’s continental structural conflict prevention framework, the voluntary country structural vulnerability assessments, and the related country structural vulnerability mitigation strategies.
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