Congratulations👏 to Ms Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana🇬🇭 on her appointment by the United Nations António Guterres as his Special Representative for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya UNSMIL AYEKOO Hanna Tetteh Find out more ▶️un.org/sg/en/content/…

Communiqué of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat on the grave situation in Eastern DRC au.int/en/pressreleas…

DRC protesting the expression used to describe the M23 in the statement by African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat.

We are not deer caught in the headlights. 1998-2004 was the peak African diplomatic innovation: AU deploying to Burundi without waiting for UN approval, IGAD getting Sudan-SPLM to table, ECOWAS showing teeth in Liberia/Sierra Leone. We need to reclaim that bold spirit

📢Breaking News: The African Union Peace and Security Council to hold an emergency session at the ministerial level tomorrow, 28 January, on the escalating situation in Eastern #DRC. During January Cote d’Ivoire is the Chairperson of the PSC and tomorrow's meeting is expected to

PRESS STATEMENT The withdrawal of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Mali and the Republic of Niger from ECOWAS has become effective today, 29th January 2025.

A few things I hope will be considered in this debate: 1) Given SAMIDRC’s offensive mandate, why do we keep referring to this as a peacekeeping mission? This isn’t just semantics. It has massive bearing on defence & international relations policy coherence (cont.)

As neighbours and compatriots, South Africa is united in grief with Namibians who have lost the leader of the Namibian revolution, who is inseparable from our own history of struggle and liberation. Dr Sam Nujoma was an extraordinary freedom fighter who divided his revolutionary

We asked the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva to give us their reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump's Executive Order targeting South Africa. This was their response: "Redressing South Africa’s racially imbalanced land ownership is vital to addressing the historical

NOW: The #AU Peace and Security Council, at the level of Heads of State and Govt, meets to discuss the situations in #Sudan & Eastern #DRC. Chaired by H.E. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea and Chairperson of the PSC for the month of February,..1/2

Thank you, Richard Randriamandrato and The Raila Odinga Amolo Foundation, for offering your visions to Africa. Leadership is not only about holding office but about standing up when the stakes are high. Congratulations to Mahamoud Ali Youssouf (Mahmoud Ali youssouf) for taking on one of the hardest jobs in

Excellent piece making sense of the resolution texts and amendments on Ukraine in the UNGA and UNSC yesterday. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-0…

BREAKING: Burundian troops will leave Somalia after the federal government of Somalia and Burundi failed to agree the number of soldiers who will be serving under AUSSOM. Egyptian troops will be deployed in Somalia as part of the AUSSOM mission. Here are the AU troop

Press Statement of the ECOWAS-UNOWAS high-Level Political Mission to Guinea-Bissau

I was pleased to welcome the A3 Plus Group of the UN Security Council at our Georgetown headquarters 🇬🇾. Our discussions included initiatives to strengthen ties, including the CARICOM-AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia scheduled for 7 Sept 2025.

🎙️ New episode of The Afropolitan Podcast Beverly Ochieng, Senior Analyst Control Risks & Senior Associate of CSIS Africa, joins host Catherine Nzuki to discuss the new Alliance of Sahel States and what it means for Africa’s legacy institutions. 🔗 bit.ly/3XviRGU

South Africa #G20 Presidency has established an Africa Expert Panel to bring the development challenges of the continent to the fore. I am happy to join eminent colleagues in this endeavour under the leadership of Trevor Manuel. More:google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…

The new AU Commission leadership's first statement, attributed to Mahmoud Ali youssouf, has the difficult task of framing a Doha-based meeting as aligned with the paradigm of African-led solutions to African problems. #Rwanda #DRC

Communiqué of the 1308th Meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union(#AUPSC) held on 28 October 2025, on Update on the Situation in #Sudan 🇸🇩 🔗 papsrepository.africanunion.org/entities/publi…