SA has four nominations for senior AU Commission positions to be elected in early 2021.
Many in Southern Africa are asking why SADC does not intervene in crises in the same way leaders in West Africa do.
Ramaphosa has taken a proactive and preventive approach domestically and in his role as AU chairperson.
The PSC Report spoke to South Africa’s ambassador in Addis Ababa Xolisa Makaya about South Africa’s priorities as chair of the AU in 2020.
At the helm of the African Union, SA can improve the body’s record on governance and democratisation.
The African Union must guard against perceptions that AfCFTA is a political project with little concrete value for investors.
To be effective, the way in which crises get onto the PSC’s agenda needs to change.
In 2019 the PSC should scale up its engagements on crises in the various regions of the continent.
Major elections will take place in Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Algeria, Tunisia and Mozambique in 2019.
The institutional reform of the AU will be an important item on the agenda of the upcoming Nouakchott summit.
The PSC Report spoke to Dr Ibrahim Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer of the NEPAD Agency, about the future of the organisation.
Almost all AU special envoys to conflict zones are men, but the organisation is trying to change that.
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