The jury remains out on whether the African Union’s determination to silence the guns this year will be actualised.

Anglophone rebels of the Southern Cameroons Defence Force have agreed for humanitarian reasons to lay down their arms while the battle rages against COVID 19.

The larger Ambazonia Defence Force has yet to say it is calling off its three-year insurgency.

In Mozambique the Islamist separatists in the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado have got even tougher.

In the past week they have raided two towns, sending residence fleeing in boats to the provincial capital Pemba.

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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has joined Western and Arab powers in calling for peace.

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UN boss Antonio Guterres was in Tripoli visiting the UN-backed Prime Minister Fayes Al Serraj when the so called Libyan National Army started its advance on Tripoli.

Guterres appealed for calm

“There is no military solution anywhere in the world and certainly not military solution in Libya,” he said.

His appeal was echoed by the United States, Britain, France, Italy and the United Arab Emirates.

Libya is  virtually ungovernable because of violence following the 2011 fall of Muammar Gadaffi.

The UN-backed government in Tripoli is held hostage by the Benghazi-based rebels in east of the country 

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Demonstrations have torn the central African giant where polls have been closed to more than million voters  because of the EBOLA outbreak, military actions against rebels and ethnic violence.

Sunday’s election in the DRC should produce the first democratic change of president since the nation’s independence from Belgium in 1960. 

UN boss Antonio Guterres calls it an opportunity to consolidate the DRC’s democratic institutions.

He calls on the authorities, political leaders, election officials and civil society to avoid taking any provocative  action and to show maximum retrain to enable the more than 40 million voters peacefully to cast their ballots.

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