Foreign Relations of The African Union - Response To Crises and Conflicts

Response To Crises and Conflicts

  • Possibly the most pressing issue facing Africa in terms of humanitarian crises is the Darfur Conflict. International response to the Darfur conflict has been varied and inadequate to stop the violence in Southern Sudan. The AU has created a Mission to the territory, and worked to help solve the associated Chadian-Sudanese conflict. Due to the ratification of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706, the precise role of the Union in Sudan may change to a closer collaboration with UN forces.
  • The AU helped to coordinate the donations of individual member states' to Indonesia after its devastating 2004 tsunami.
  • The AU's predecessor, the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) played a role in saving innocent life during the Rwandan Genocide.
  • The AU as a body and most of its constituent states condemned the United States-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. In broader Middle East issues, the Union is an observer with the United Nations's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
  • The AU has played a secondary role in conflicts in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia. It also served to ratify results in the Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2006.
  • In March, 2008 an AU force stabilized Comoros by taking control of separatist forces on Anjouan.

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