Parfait Onanga-Anyanga was talking at a Safety Council assembly centered on the important thing points confronted by Africa and cooperation between the UN and the African Union (AU) – a continental organisation comprising 55 African Member States.
He warned that “issues stay in some elements of the continent in regards to the quantity and complexity of conflicts.”
He stated these conflicts have been typically worsened by “weak or ineffective State authority, violence extremism conducive to terrorist actions, the inequitable administration of pure sources, organized crime, the impression of local weather change, acute meals insecurity and, in some circumstances, denial of elementary human rights.”
Conflicts within the Horn of Africa, Sudan, South Sudan and the Nice Lakes area – together with the Democratic Republic of the Congo – have prompted widespread displacement and a number of humanitarian emergencies.
Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Particular Envoy of the Secretary-Basic for the Horn of Africa, briefs the Safety Council assembly on upkeep of worldwide peace and safety.
“No navy resolution by any means can resolve underlying causes of the battle within the DRC or elsewhere in Africa,” stated Mr. Onanga-Anyanga. “I name upon this Council to proceed to leverage its affect in direction of peaceable settlement of excellent points between the events.”
The Particular Consultant highlighted two vital conflict-related points to Council members: local weather change as a battle multiplier and the challenges confronted by ladies and ladies in battle-scarred areas, noting the constant spillover results of climate-induced insecurity throughout all these crises.
Unprecedented wave of threats
Talking for the AU, Ambassador Mohamed Fathi Ahmed Edrees instructed the Council that
“Africa is dealing with an unprecedented wave of threats to its safety” including that “options are wanted to realize better stability.”
The UN and the AU have lengthy collaborated on points affecting the continent and in line with the UN’s Onanga-Anyanga “important progress has been made, significantly in supporting current free, honest, and credible elections throughout the continent—in Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius, and most just lately Malawi, the place a brand new president was inaugurated final week.”
Mr. Onanga-Anyanga stated that fostering consensus was extra vital than ever.
“The robust and enduring partnership between the United Nations and the African Union, in addition to with different regional organizations, constitutes the muse of efficient and networked multilateralism, important to deal with right now’s complicated, evolving and interconnected threats to peace, safety, growth and human rights, significantly in Africa,” he stated.
Responding to armed conflicts
In December 2023, the UN Safety Council adopted a decision to reinforce cooperation between the UN and AU.
Addressing the Council, Martha Pobee, a UN Assistant Secretary-Basic with a short specializing in Africa stated that the decision (2719) was conceived “as a method to deal with a longstanding hole within the African Union’s peace and safety structure to higher to reply to armed conflicts on the African continent, with the help of the broader worldwide neighborhood, and this Council particularly.”
Work is constant on the operationalisation of the decision throughout 4 key workstreams with some progress reported.
Joint planning modalities for AU-led peace help operations have been authorised in September, establishing a shared decision-making framework.
Mission help planning was additionally finalized to make sure coherent discipline operations.
Earlier within the yr, the UN outlined monetary guidelines for AU-led missions, now underneath legislative overview.
Progress was additionally made on compliance and the safety of civilians together with strengthening accountability mechanisms and creating gender-responsive insurance policies.
The efforts “search to make sure that our collaboration is grounded each in strategic imaginative and prescient and in operational practicality,” stated Ms. Pobee.
