The African heads of state meeting in Addis Ababa Monday were given an extra month to resolve the confusion arose from the disputed presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire, are also preparing to host an independent South Sudan soon in the African Union.
The African heads of state meeting in Addis Ababa Monday were given an extra month to resolve the confusion arose from the disputed presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire, are also preparing to host an independent South Sudan soon in the African Union.
At the conclusion of two-day summit, the AU said "follow closely the developments of the situation in Egypt", after a week of demonstrations against the government of Hosni Mubarak and called for "free elections" in Tunisia, where the formation of a new government appeared to bring some calm.
On the Côte d'Ivoire, a "panel" of five heads of state responsible for presenting within one month of making "binding" held its first meeting Monday.
Chaired by the Head of State of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, he met Deby (Chad), Jacob Zuma (South Africa), Blaise Compaore (Burkina Faso) and Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania).
This initiative aims to "bring Alassane Ouattara to exercise real power" in the country "through negotiations," the chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping, adding that his organization still believed Mr. Ouattara as the winner of election who opposed the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo.
The creation of the panel gives the AU a new deadline for re-unity, while several countries including South Africa and Uganda appear to be more sensitive to the arguments of Mr Gbagbo.
Ouattara welcomed what he saw as a confirmation of his victory, but he regretted the new deadline. Gbagbo's camp welcomed "the decision to move towards a peaceful resolution of the crisis."
More consensual, the 16th AU summit "reaffirmed its commitment to recognize the referendum results" of January in southern Sudan, in which 98.83% of the population voted for independence.
"A state is about to be born, and it is a painless childbirth, contrary to what the world was concerned," said Jean Ping.
But the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "very concerned about the challenges of the post-referendum", and had long talks Monday with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir and the leader of South Sudan Salva Kiir on the many outstanding disputes, the disputed Abyei region strategic sharing oil resources.
Mr. Ping has also compiled an admission of failure unprecedented Somali transitional government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, seven months after the end of the mandate entrusted to it by the international community, saying "he did not been able to fulfill its obligations in fact government. "
At arm's backed by the international community face daily attacks from insurgents, radical Islamists, the TFG survives only through the support of the 8,000 men of the African Union force in Somalia (AMISOM).
For its part, Kenya has won the support of the AU to suspend the prosecution of the International Criminal Court against six alleged perpetrators of post election violence from 2007-2008. The AU has already called in vain, such a postponement of the proceedings against Bashir for his alleged crimes in Darfur (west).
The AU is now headed by the president of Equatorial Guinea, identified Sunday by his peers remained deaf to criticism from civil society on human rights violations and corruption that characterize them as the three decades of unchallenged power of Teodoro Obiang Nguema. The next summit of the organization will also be held in June in the capital Malabo in Equatorial Guinea.
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