Congo Brazzaville Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/congo-brazzaville/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Congo Brazzaville Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/congo-brazzaville/ 32 32 Will African leaders have the courage to shun the new tyrants https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/will-african-leaders-have-the-courage-to-shun-the-new-tyrants/ Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/will-african-leaders-have-the-courage-to-shun-the-new-tyrants/ Coups détats have all but dried up in Africa this century. But peace and security on the continent is now threatened by African leaders clinging to power. At their summit in Sandton next weekend African leaders have to consider whether to red card those who do. In the last half of the previous century there […]

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]]> Coups détats have all but dried up in Africa this century.

But peace and security on the continent is now threatened by African leaders clinging to power.

At their summit in Sandton next weekend African leaders have to consider whether to red card those who do.

In the last half of the previous century there were 89 successful coups in Africa.

Since 2000 there have been only six.

David Zounmenou of the Institute for Security Studies says the new African tyrants are those who tamper with our disregard their constitutions to stay at the helm.

The African Union ground law stipulates that they should be shunned like any leader who’s seized power unconstitutionally.

Will the African leaders gathered in Sandton on Sunday have the courage to do this?

President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi is the latest example.

But there are at least four others in Rwanda, the two Congos and Benin.

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]]> Central African leaders meet to fix strategy against Boko Haram https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/central-african-leaders-meet-fix-strategy-boko-haram/ Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/central-african-leaders-meet-fix-strategy-boko-haram/ Six African heads of state are at meeting in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde to fix a joint strategy for fighting Boko Haram. They’re meeting under the auspices of the Economic Community of Central African States. Four other countries have sent delegates. Of the central African countries at the meeting, only Chad and Cameroon have […]

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]]> Six African heads of state are at meeting in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde to fix a joint strategy for fighting Boko Haram.

They’re meeting under the auspices of the Economic Community of Central African States. Four other countries have sent delegates.

Of the central African countries at the meeting, only Chad and Cameroon have actually experienced attacks by the extremists…

…who’ve killed more than 13 000 people these past six years – mostly in Nigeria.

The Yaounde meeting’s bent on finding an agreed solution to counter the terror group.

The presidents of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are joined by ministers from Angola, Burundi, Sao Tome and Principe and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the previous meeting in the Cameroon capital , leaders agreed to deploy a regional force of 8700 troops against Boko Haram.

 

 

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