Tag: AU

Peacekeeping: Somali demands UN delay drawdown of troops

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
FARMAJO, HASSAN SHEIK OF SOMALIA

Somalia has asked the United Nations to pause a planned drawdown of 3,000 African Union (AU) peacekeepers for three months to allow its security forces time to regroup after a militant attack forced them to withdraw from several recently captured towns. The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), which is mandated by the UN Security Council, took over from another AU mission in April last year. A Somali government letter shows the national security adviser wrote to the United Nations requesting a 90-day delay in the second phase of…

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AU orders Niger coup leaders back to barracks in 15 days  

Aminu Imam

The African Union (AU) has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government. The AU warned of severe consequences if the military chiefs did not heed the call. The African Union threat came after the US and the European Union (EU) issued similar rebuff of the coup leaders who sacked the civilian government of President Mohammed Bazoum, who was elected in 2021 in the first civilian handover of power. The coup leaders met with senior civil servants to discuss how they would…

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“Elections not a do-or-die affair” – AU devt. agency tells Nigerians

Aminu Imam

The African Union Development Agency/New Partnership for African Development, (AUDA-NEPAD), has urged Nigerians to eschew bitterness and ensure that the forthcoming elections are free from violence. The organisation gave the advice at a Road Walk organised to sensitise Nigerians on the need for a violence-free election, on Thursday in Abuja. Director, Planning, Research and Innovation, AUDA-NEPAD, Abdulkaheem Akande, said the sensitisation was geared towards ensuring a peaceful election, devoid of crisis and violence. Akande, who is also the focal person of the nationwide violence-free election campaign, said that most of…

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Tigray Crisis: Ethiopian PM Abiy meets AU Mediation team

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has reiterated the federal government’s commitment to the protection and security of civilians in the ongoing fighting between the National Defence Forces and the regional Tigray People’s Liberation Force (TPLF). He was speaking to members of an African Union Mission, in Ethiopia to mediate in the fighting, about the establishment of a high-level committee of federal stakeholders to access and respond to essential humanitarian needs of citizens in the Tigray region. He also briefed the mission on the identification and humanitarian assistance routes for the…

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Mali: AU kicks, seeks UN intervention as soldiers arrest President Keita, PM Cisse

Ishaku Yohanna

The African Union Commission has reacted to the arrest and detention of Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse by mutinying soldiers. The African Union Commission kicked against the arrests of Keita, Cisse and other officials which happened on Tuesday. The mutinying soldiers had detained Keita and some members of his cabinet at his residence in Bamako, the country’s capital. Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, condemned any attempt at “anti-constitutional” change while calling on the mutinying soldiers to respect the state’s institutions. Faki…

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