{"id":21351,"date":"2021-02-06T19:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=21351"},"modified":"2021-02-06T19:54:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T16:54:53","slug":"au-virtual-summit-the-key-issues-as-dr-congos-tshisekedi-assumes-chairmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/06\/au-virtual-summit-the-key-issues-as-dr-congos-tshisekedi-assumes-chairmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"AU Virtual Summit: The Key Issues As DR Congo&#8217;s Tshisekedi Assumes Chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>African Union (AU) leaders will hold a two-day summit starting on Saturday as the continent grapples with a wide range of issues, including a rise in coronavirus infections, border disputes and displacement due to fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this year\u2019s virtual summit, Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, will take over the rotating AU chairmanship from his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa. The pan-African body\u2019s assembly will also elect high-level officials to lead the AU Commission, including a chairperson, for the next four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the summit, whose official theme is Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want, Al Jazeera takes a look at some of the most pressing priorities facing the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa, home to about 1.3 billion people, has reported more than 3.6 million confirmed COVID-19 infections and some 89,000 related deaths, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southern Africa is its most affected region, with South Africa particularly hit \u2013 at almost 1.5 million infections and 45,600 fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The continent might have escaped the worst of the pandemic \u2013 compared to the infections and deaths reported in the Americas, Europe and Asia \u2013 but health experts are warning that \u201cvaccine hoarding\u201d by wealthy nations is putting lives at risk in African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While countries in other parts of the world have already rolled out mass vaccination programmes, those in Africa have hardly started issuing the jabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe first, not me first, is the only way to end the pandemic,\u201d Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) regional director for Africa, said in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVaccine hoarding will only prolong the ordeal and delay Africa\u2019s recovery. It is deeply unjust that the most vulnerable Africans are forced to wait for vaccines while lower-risk groups in rich countries are made safe,\u201d Moeti added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVAX, a WHO-led global vaccine-sharing scheme, says it aims to vaccinate at least 20 percent of the continent\u2019s population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith a second wave of COVID spreading across the continent, the best response is to collectively access vaccine and start rolling out an inoculation campaign,\u201d Alex Vines, director of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe key problem is funding. According to the WHO, only 25 percent of African countries have adequate plans for funding inoculation programmes,\u201d Vines said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Africa CDC Director John Nkengasong said 16 countries had shown interest in securing a total of 114 million doses under the AU\u2019s Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT), which began work in mid-January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur hope is that in the next two to three weeks, they should be having their vaccines,\u201d he told a virtual news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CAR conflict<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Long&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/1\/17\/free-and-fair-elections-alone-will-not-solve-cars-myriad-problem\">struggling with stability<\/a>, the Central African Republic has been hit by a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/1\/19\/political-crisis-grow-in-car-as-rebels-stage-attacks\">fresh wave of violence<\/a>&nbsp;before and after chaotic elections in December that forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homes, prevented most registered voters from casting their ballots and caused the collapse of a fragile peace deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A rebel alliance of armed groups has been seeking to overturn the December 27 polls, which saw incumbent President Faustin-Archange Touadera&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/1\/5\/central-african-republic-president-touadera-reelected\">re-elected<\/a>&nbsp;amid accusations of fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rebels moved on to the capital, Bangui, last month but were repelled by government forces and United Nations peacekeepers, as well as Rwandan and Russian troops. The rebel alliance, however, is still blockading the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike in some other conflicts on the continent, the AU has so far not sent troops to CAR, a mineral-rich country that is one of the world\u2019s poorest nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe AU is divided on this issue. Geopolitical influences have so far stopped deployment of troops,\u201d analyst Tahirou Amadou told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrancophone countries \u2013 Chad and Congo-Brazzaville \u2013 are on the side of the rebels and are accused of pushing France\u2019s interest; Congo-Kinshasa has close links to Russia; Rwanda and Angola are supporting the government;\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be consensus before troops can be deployed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tigray crisis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After protracted tension, Ethiopia\u2019s central government on November 4 launched a military offensive to remove the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) \u2013 the ruling party of the northern state of Tigray bordering Eritrea and Sudan \u2013 from power. The TPLF dominated Ethiopia\u2019s governing coalition for almost 30 years, before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fighting in Tigray is believed to have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/12\/12\/survivors-recount-horrific-details-of-mai-kadra-massacre\">killed<\/a>&nbsp;thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands, including some 60,000 in Sudan. It has also spawned a humanitarian crisis, leaving millions in need of aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As aid groups keep pushing for access to the region amid a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/1\/19\/ethiopia-hesitant-to-allow-aid-agencies-into-tigray\">looming starvation crisis<\/a>, Filippo Grandi, the UN\u2019s high commissioner for refugees, said on Monday the situation in Tigray is \u201cextremely grave\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA humanitarian catastrophe is possible if essential food aid continues to be barred,\u201d the International Crisis Group think-tank warned this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conflict has also prompted warnings of further destabilisation within Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa region. Eritrea has been accused of sending forces in Tigray to back Ethiopian soldiers, though both Addis Ababa and Asmara deny that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe AU appointed three former African heads of state as envoys to help resolve the conflict in Tigray, although they gained little traction on their visit to Addis Ababa last November, with Abiy rejecting calls for dialogue between the government and TPLF,\u201d Ahmed Soliman, Horn of Africa research fellow at Chatham House, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGiven actions to date and the competing priorities of member states, I\u2019m doubtful that the AU will push for a national dialogue in Ethiopia, which is much needed to address the critical fault-lines in the country,\u201d Soliman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Somalia-Kenya dispute<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, Somalia severed diplomatic ties with neighbouring Kenya, accusing Nairobi of violating Somali sovereignty and meddling in its internal affairs before a general election this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move marked the culmination of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/1\/11\/somalia-and-kenya-still-have-a-path-to-neighbourly-cooperation\">steadily deteriorating ties<\/a>&nbsp;between the two neighbours, which include a spat over maritime borders in a dispute that now rests with the International Court of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe situation is incredibly serious,\u201d Abdullahi Boru, a Horn of Africa security analyst, told Al Jazeera. \u201cSomalia\u2019s upcoming election and the start of the oral proceeding of the maritime dispute in March makes it even more tense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 30, Somalia&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/11\/30\/somalia-expels-kenya-envoy-recalls-its-ambassador-in-nairobi\">expelled<\/a>&nbsp;Kenya\u2019s ambassador and recalled its own envoy from Nairobi, accusing Kenya of interfering in the electoral process in the southern state of Jubbaland, one of its five semi-autonomous states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relations between Somalia\u2019s central government and Jubbaland, which borders Kenya, are tense as authorities of the semi-autonomous region accuse Mogadishu of seeking to remove President Ahmed Madobe and put a loyalist in power to increase central control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madobe is a key ally of Kenya, which sees Jubbaland as a buffer against al-Shabab fighters who have staged several bloody attacks across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ethiopia-Sudan border dispute<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia and Sudan have been embroiled in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/1\/rising-tension-ethiopia-sudan-deadlocked-border-dispute-fashaga\">tense dispute<\/a>&nbsp;along their border,&nbsp;with both sides moving tanks and heavy weapons and accusing each other of pushing further into the contested area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two countries share a 1,600km (994-mile) border and have long feuded over the al-Fashaga region, where Ethiopian farmers cultivate fertile land claimed by Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe border dispute between Sudan and Ethiopia is one of grave concern to the region and has the potential to worsen without de-escalation efforts and bilateral discussions between the two neighbourly countries,\u201d Soliman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The border tensions come at a time when Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt are also trying to resolve a three-way dispute over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIdeally there would be discussion of this issue at the AU summit, even if that chiefly took the form of diplomatic conversations in the margins. However, given that this year\u2019s summit is virtual, it limits the possibility of such mediation efforts,\u201d Soliman added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SOURCE\u00a0:\u00a0AL JAZEERA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Follow Hamza Mohamed on Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hamza_Africa\">@Hamza_Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/4\/17\/africa-coronavirus-cases-could-hit-10-million-in-six-months-who\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/6\/chad-police-confront-protesters-as-deby-nominated-for-sixth-term\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/6\/somalia-leaders-fail-to-reach-deal-on-elections\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/6\/rights-groups-call-for-review-of-bangladeshi-un-troop-deployments\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/6\/trump-will-not-get-intel-briefs-biden-says\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/6\/us-ship-sails-near-chinese-controlled-paracel-islands\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/5\/locked-out-indians-angry-over-vaccine-export-to-saudi-arabia\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/6\/indian-farmers-plan-nationwide-3-hour-blockade-of-highways\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/static\/media\/footer-icon--white.9c8198f5.svg\" alt=\"logo\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ssum-sec.casalemedia.com\/usermatchredir?s=185073&amp;cb=https%3A%2F%2Fe.serverbid.com%2Fudb%2F9969%2Fsync%2Fi.gif%3FpartnerId%3D1%26userId%3D\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/getuid?https%3A%2F%2Fe.serverbid.com%2Fudb%2F9969%2Fsync%2Fi.gif%3FpartnerId%3D28%26userId%3D%24UID\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.advertising.com\/ups\/56621\/occ\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sync.go.sonobi.com\/usa?https:\/\/e.serverbid.com\/udb\/9969\/sync\/i.gif?partnerId=38&amp;userId=\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.serverbid.com\/udb\/9969\/match?gdpr=0&amp;euconsent=&amp;redir=https%3A%2F%2Fib.adnxs.com%2Fprebid%2Fsetuid%3Fbidder%3Dconsumable%26gdpr%3D0%26gdpr_consent%3D%26uid%3D\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Union (AU) leaders will hold a two-day summit starting on Saturday as the continent grapples with a wide range of issues, including a rise in coronavirus infections, border disputes and displacement due to fighting. 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