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Africa: AU Summit 31 - Cameroon Needs Its Friends More Than Ever
ISS, 27 June 2018
The situation in the anglophone provinces of Cameroon has become increasingly unstable, with regular confrontations between secessionist groups and security forces. Yet this is not… Read more »
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Africa: Reconfiguring the African Peace Facility Post-Cotonou
ISS, 26 June 2018
The European Union's (EU) partnership accord with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries - also known as the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 - expires in February 2020. As… Read more »
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Africa: What Is the African Union's Role in the Sahel?
ISS, 25 June 2018
Mauritania's capital Nouakchott, which hosts this week's African Union (AU) summit, was the birthplace of the major continental initiative in the Sahel-Saharan strip in March 2013… Read more »
All The Hot Issues Facing AU Summit 31
Ever-increasing violence in Cameroon, the readmittance of Morocco and what it means, the crisis in the Sahel, and renegotiating the peace missions in Africa combined with discussing EU funding - the 31st African Union Summit in Mauritania has a challenging agenda...
Protesters use catapult against police in Bamenda, Cameroon. Anglophone civil society leaders and several supporters were jailed and then released in 2017. English speakers have been calling for equal treatment in the majority French-speaking nation. (file photo)
InFocus
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Following the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area by 44 countries at the AU Summit in Kigali, it is now up to governments to engage their respective domestic ... Read more »
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President Paul Kagame has taken over chairmanship of the African Union during the heads of state and government summit of the AU. The 30th AU summit is being convened under the ... Read more »
