Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Minister of Foreign Affairs defended this Wednesday, at the ministerial meeting that precedes the African Union (AU) Summit, that mechanisms be improved to deal with the “institutional fragility” of some countries and consequent crises.
“Perhaps we should start looking differently at the crucial issue that is the institutional fragility of some of our States and see to what extent existing mechanisms can be improved”, said Rui Figueiredo Soares, quoted in a statement from the Ministry.
“Without strong and resilient institutions, there can be no democracy or sustainable development,” he added.
The government official said that the appeal “may seem a bit ‘utopian’, given the current situation”, but it seems “inevitable to at least take a new look at this fundamental issue”, he said in the same statement.
Rui Figueiredo Soares was speaking during the 44th session of the AU Executive Council, which takes place today and Thursday, preceding the Summit of heads of State and Government, Saturday and Sunday, in the Ethiopian capital.
The current presidency of the AU, handed over to the Comoros islands, comes to an end without having managed to prevent the proliferation of coups d’état in West Africa and the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, both in West Africa and in the eastern part of the continent.
In the Economic Community of West African States alone (ECOWAS, to which Cape Verde belongs), there are four countries (Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Conakry and Niger) governed by the military, since 2020, following coups d’état.
An attempted coup in Sierra Leone, another member of ECOWAS, killed 21 people in November and in Senegal, one of the most influential in the regional bloc, several protests broke out after President Macky Sall announced, on February 3, the postponement of the presidential elections, three weeks before voting day.
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