Former UN special envoy Said Djinnit says the greatest source of instability in the Great Lakes region remains the presence of non-state armed groups in the eastern DRC.
In October the PSC will discuss the situations in South Sudan, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho and the Great Lakes region.
The AU is divided over the possible impact of free movement of people on security in Africa.
The election of 10 new PSC members shows that consultation within regions prevailed over competition between member states.
Clarifying the relationship between the AU and regional economic communities is one of the main issues on the AU’s reform agenda.
Amid growing insecurity in the country, the PSC will be discussing the new AU roadmap for peace in the Central African Republic.
This month the focus of the PSC is on its reports to the 29th AU summit.
The AU facilitator in the DRC, Edem Kodjo, tells the PSC Report everything is ready for a national dialogue to start soon.
A narrow agenda and continued divisions within the United Nations Security Council prevented any decisive outcome of the PSC–UNSC meeting last month
The AU has been called on to intervene in crisis the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But can it be successful?
The AU's Agenda 2063 was a hot topic at the recent summit, as was UN reform, the Burundi crisis and possible ICC withdrawal.
Libya, Somalia and the Central African Republic feature on the agenda of the PSC in December 2015.
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