Nigeria calls for total overhaul of AU security framework to tackle terrorism

The Federal Government of Nigeria has called for a full overhaul of the African Union Peace and Security Architecture (AUPSA) to efficaciously tackle escalating coercion and instability crossed the continent.

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, made the presumption known successful Abuja astatine a consultative forum aimed astatine strengthening the effectiveness of the AU’s information system.

The high-level forum, being held successful Abuja, was convened to thrust the implementation of AU Assembly Decision 967 of February 2026.

The determination mandated stakeholders to taxable factual recommendations for reforming the continental information model by January 2027.

Speaking astatine the opening ceremony, Odumegwu-Ojukwu painted a gloomy representation of Africa’s information landscape, noting that terrorism, erstwhile confined to the Sahel, had dispersed to West Africa’s coastal states, the Lake Chad Basin, the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes portion and bluish Mozambique.

She besides raised the alarm implicit the evolving tactics of violent groups, which present leverage drones, illicit ...