Challenges and prospects of AU to implement Ezulwini Consensus: the case of collective security and the use of force

                                                         Tunamsifu Shirambere Philippe

The Ezulwini Consensus has endorsed the Responsibility to protect (R2P) that recognizes the right to intervene when a State is unwilling or unable to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. In such situations, Ezulwini Consensus emphasises that regional organizations in areas of proximity to conflicts should be empowered to take action. However, the current situation in the Eastern DRC has challenged the ICGLR to implement the Ezulwini Consensus. The ICGLR is unable to take appropriate action against Member States who are providing support to armed groups destabilizing other Member States. In order to protect the population under imminent threat and maintain the Great Lakes Region as a specific zone of reconstruction and development, Member States of the ICGLR have to demonstrate their political will to respect the fundamental principles particularly of the territorial integrity, national sovereignty, non-interference and non-aggression against another Member State. Besides, the AU must take its own responsibility by sending African Experts in order to help the ICGLR to resolve the crisis as the mediator between the Government of the DRC and M23 is no longer neutral.

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