Concerns for South Sudan, CAR on Agenda at AU Summit

The African Union summit opened Thursday in Addis Ababa with a call for greater support to end the conflicts in South Sudan and the Central African Republic.     In opening remarks at the summit, the outgoing chair of the AU, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, said issues of peace and security have been a “major preoccupation” of the AU in the past year.  He put particular emphasis on the crises in South Sudan and the CAR.   “We need to find urgent...

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