Peace & Security Council Report

The April 2017 PSC Report examines the AU's struggle to manage the Western Sahara crisis amid Morocco's readmission, the systemic failures of the Continental Early Warning System due to member state denialism, and the precarious security environments in Darfur, Mali, and Somalia. It also highlights a trend of democratic backsliding in Africa, characterized by the removal of presidential term limits and the shrinking of political space.

• The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) is attempting to revitalize its engagement with Western Sahara by reopening its office in Laayoune, reactivating an ad hoc committee of heads of state and government established in 1978, and elevating Joaquim Chissano to high representative for Western Sahara. This occurs despite Morocco's absence from a March 20, 2017, PSC meeting and its assertion that the issue is the purview of the UN Security Council.
• The AU's Continental Early Warning System (CEWS), created in 2004, is hindered by a lack of political will and 'denialism' from member states who reject objective signals of looming crises to avoid being placed on the PSC agenda. Additionally, the system focuses on short-term triggers rather than structural root causes of instability, and coordination with regional early warning systems is uneven.

APA

Bedzigui, Y., Louw-Vaudran, L., Ani, N. C., Assanvo, W., & Maïga, I. (2017). Peace & Security Council Report. Institute for Security Studies. https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/psc90.pdf

Chicago

Bedzigui, Yann, Liesl Louw-Vaudran, Ndubuisi Christian Ani, William Assanvo, and Ibrahim Maïga. Peace & Security Council Report. Institute for Security Studies, 2017. https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/psc90.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{bedzigui2017peace, author = {Bedzigui, Yann and Louw-Vaudran, Liesl and Ani, Ndubuisi Christian and Assanvo, William and Maïga, Ibrahim}, title = {{Peace \& Security Council Report}}, institution = {Institute for Security Studies}, year = {2017}, month = apr, url = {https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/psc90.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }