The 29th Ordinary Session of the African Union has concluded in the Ethiopian capital with a number of issues being discussed including adoption of report on reforms of the Union’s institutions, youth issues, and the need to end conflict and wars in the continent.
This summit however saw a low turn out of presidents including Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta among other key leaders.
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame while submitting the report on AU Reforms urged African countries to unify efforts to speed up the implementation of necessary improvements in the pan-African body.
Moussa Faki Mahamat, the AU Commission chairperson said in his speech that Africa would deploy all its efforts to make 2020 the year of “silencing the sounds of guns”, by adopting unified stances that promote peace in the continent.
CGTN’s Robert Nagila was at the AU headquarters, and brings us a summary of what was achieved during the two-day summit.
The African Union says it is preparing to take a decisions on the current border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea.
Moussa Faki Mahamat said a fact-finding mission’s report will determine what step the continental block will take.
But until then, he is calling for a peaceful resolution of the row between the two eastern Africa states.
Here is CGTN’s Girum Chala’s report.
