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2020-02-10 Africa North
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There is no military solution in Libya: African Union Commission
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] There is no military solution to the conflict in Libya, said African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat on Sunday.
Libya has been plagued by conflict since the fall of dictator Muhammar Qadaffy in 2011 and currently has two rival governments.
"With regards to Libya, Africa is constantly reminded that there is no military solution for this problem," said Faki Mahamat at the opening remarks on the third day of the 26th African Union Summit in Addis Abada on Sunday.
The theme of the summit is "silencing the guns," referring to attempts to resolve conflicts in African countries including Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo , which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, South Sudan, and Somalia.
The summit is the last with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi as its chairperson. The rotating position as ceremonial head is set to pass to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday.
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