Post-summit seminar on the 23rd Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly
This seminar takes stock of the decisions made at the recent AU summit in Malabo and interrogates their significance for peace and security in Africa.
Date: 2014-07-10
Time: 09:00 to 13:00
Venue: Conference room
, ISS Addis Ababa
RSVP: Hallelujah Lulie
Phone: +251 11 515 6320
Email: [email protected]
The 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit took place in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea from 23 to 27 June 2014. While the focus was on agriculture and food security, important decisions that are of huge legal and institutional significance were also made.
The summit took place against a background of recent violent conflicts in South Sudan and the Central African Republic and a surge in terrorist attacks in Nigeria and Kenya.
It therefore also served as an opportunity – including a summit-level meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC), marking the 10-year anniversary of the PSC – to consider the peace and security issues facing the continent.
In this context, the summit received the interim report of the AU Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan and extended the mandate of the Commission for an additional period of three months.
At the institutional level, recent security issues once again drew attention to the operationalisation of the African Standby Force (ASF) and the recently proposed African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crisis (ACIRC).
This seminar will take stock of these decisions and interrogate their ramifications. Possibilities for following up and implementing these decisions will also be discussed.
Chair: Kongit Sinegiorgis, Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the African Union and UN Economic Commission for Africa
Speakers:
- Olusegun Akinsanya, Regional Director, ISS Addis Ababa
- Andrew H Mtetwa, Ambassador of Zimbabwe to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the AU and the UN Economic Commission for Africa
- Bruce Mokaya, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross Delegation to the AU
- Hallelujah Lulie, Researcher, ISS Addis Ababa
- Solomon Ayele Dersso, Senior Researcher, ISS Addis Ababa
