Africa: On Policing Africa, Leaders Walk the Talk

2 February 2013

What happened at the recent African Union (AU) summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis-Ababa, may not necessarily mean a swift African intervention in Mali because it's already too late, but it could be a sign of awakening on the part of African leaders in ensuring their responsibility to guard the continent's security.

In what experts are describing as unprecedented, the AU has allocated US$50m from its own budget to support its intervention in Mali while it has also secured another US$455 million in pledges to support the mission through a fundraising conference held on Tuesday.

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