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Africa: Provide Institutions With Capacity to Silence the Guns, Urges AU
SAnews.gov.za, 7 December 2020
In an effort to silence the guns on the continent, African Union Chairperson President Cyril Ramaphosa has underscored the need to capacitate institutions that are engaged in… Read more »
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Africa: African Union Approves Start of Trading Under AfCFTA On 1 January Next Year As Earlier Agreed
UNECA, 5 December 2020
African leaders at a summit today have approved that trading should start on 1 January next year as scheduled on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement and… Read more »
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Nigeria: Buhari Tasks African Leaders On Implementation of Arms Control Instruments
Vanguard, 7 December 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari has told African leaders to promote the implementation of arms control instruments and embargoes, to complement and consolidate African Peace and… Read more »
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Nigeria: Buhari Tasks African Leaders On Arms Control
Premium Times, 7 December 2020
Buhari seeks coordination between the regional economic communities and the AU. Read more »
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Africa: African Rights Court Seeks to End 'Vagrancy Laws'
East African, 5 December 2020
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights wants Africa to repeal laws which criminalise the status of individuals as being poor, homeless as opposed to reprehensible acts. Read more »
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Africa: 'Skills, Technological Advancement, Will Give us the Africa We Want' - President Tells AU Assembly
FrontPageAfrica, 6 December 2020
The President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Dr. George Manneh Weah, has called on African countries to focus efforts on crafting policies and programs that can create… Read more »
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Africa: Chakwera Says Malawi Supports Extension of 'Silencing the Guns' in Africa Programme
Nyasa Times, 7 December 2020
Malawi supports the proposal to extend the mandate of African Union (AU) programme of 'Silencing the Guns' and roadmap beyond 2020. Read more »
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Africa: Kagame - Let's Tackle Factors Disrupting Peace
New Times, 7 December 2020
Africa's best chances of ending conflict and achieving sustainable peace is by addressing the key factors that lead to emergence of violence and strife, President Paul Kagame has… Read more »
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Africa: UN- AU Partnership Has Yielded 'Significant Results' - Guterres
UN News, 4 December 2020
The United Nations-African Union (AU) partnership has yielded "significant results", including at the country level, the UN chief told the Security Council on Friday. Read more »
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Egypt: AfCFTA 'Real Test' of Ability to Achieve Development Breakthrough - PM
Egypt Online, 5 December 2020
The success of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will be a true test of its effectiveness in bringing about the economic and development breakthrough to… Read more »
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Africa: Nuclear Arms Control in Crisis While U.S. Exerts Pressure On Treaty Signatories
IPS, 29 October 2020
Responding to a question, Albert Einstein, the German-born physicist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics, predicted rather ominously: "I do not know with what weapons World… Read more »