{"id":4153,"date":"2021-10-29T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/en\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T11:00:11","slug":"socio-economic-crisis-of-covid-19-increased-seizures-of-power-by-force-and-proliferation-of-militias-across-africa-worries-the-international-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/socio-economic-crisis-of-covid-19-increased-seizures-of-power-by-force-and-proliferation-of-militias-across-africa-worries-the-international-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Socio-economic crisis of Covid-19, increased seizures of power by force and proliferation of militias across Africa, worries the international community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General yesterday underlined the vital importance of peace and security in Africa. While calling on all Member States to work with the African Union and sub-regional organizations to make life safer across the continent, she drew the attention of Council members to a number of worrying trends that Africans are facing today.<\/p>\n<p>For Amina J. Mohammed, the socio-economic crises of Covid-19 have not only had an impact on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across Africa, but have also exacerbated poverty, inequalities and all the conflict factors.<\/p>\n<p>An increase in the seizure of power by force and a proliferation of militias across Africa, worries the international community; but despite these &#8220;disturbing developments&#8221; &#8211; from the military coup in Sudan earlier this week, to the continuing conflict in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, to the lingering threats of terrorism and violent extremism &#8211; the growing cooperation between the UN, the African Union and sub-regional organizations on peace processes shows that Africans continue to work for a prosperous, sustainable and peaceful continent, based on universal principles of rights of man, according to the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.<br \/>\nwww.un.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General yesterday underlined the vital importance of peace and security in Africa. While calling on all Member States to work with the African Union and sub-regional organizations to make life safer across the continent, she drew the attention of Council members to a number of worrying trends that Africans are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}