Online Reporter
George Maponga in MIDRAND, South Africa
THE Pan African Parliament (PSC) and the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) have resolved to closely collaborate and provide lasting solutions to conflicts that are blighting the continent.
The two bodies held a historic joint consultative meeting at the PAP seat here in Midrand, where calls were made to intensify efforts to end stem raging conflicts in various flashpoints across Africa.
Reading out the recommendations at the end of the joint consultative meeting between PAP and PSC, Ms Lindiwe Khumalo, the PAP Clerk of Parliament, said a raft of measures were agreed to usher in a new dawn of peace in Africa.
Ms Zulu said PAP and PSC had agreed on the need to embrace African solutions to African problems through the use of continental institutions in addressing peace and security challenges.
This is related especially to the pursuit of solutions to wars and conflicts that continue to haunt sub-Saharan Africa.
“In this regard, they stressed the importance of coordination of PSC/PAP efforts in complementing each other in addressing governance, peace and security challenges,” said Ms Khumalo.
The joint meeting also decried the widening spread of the scourge of terrorism across Africa, which requires strengthening of regional integration and information sharing.
Increasing cases of unconstitutional changes of government in Africa also loomed large in the joint meeting, with calls for adherence to constitutionalism.
The joint meeting was chaired by the PAP president, Chief Fortune Charumbira and PSC chairperson Ambassador Rebecca Amuge Otengo, who is also Uganda’s permanent representative to the African Union.
