UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that Africa needed “action for peace” to combat rising violence and promote democratic freedoms on the continent.
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“I am deeply concerned about the recent rise in violence by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and the rise of terrorist groups in the Sahel and elsewhere,” Guterres said at the start of the annual African Union summit in Addis Ababa. “The brutal injustice of climate change is on full display with every flood, drought, famine and heatwave endured on this continent,” he said.
Guterres met with several African leaders on Friday, including Rwandan President Paul Kagame, to discuss in particular the crisis in the Congo.
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